Surgery Waits

Inguinal hernia repair waiting time at Kingaroy Hospital

The median wait for inguinal hernia repair — published by the source as "Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy" — at this public hospital in the Kingaroy area of Queensland was 72 days in 2024–25.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released

These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.

Median wait
72 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
36 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
not published2024–25 · released 28 May 2026 — Reported data did not meet the criteria to calculate this indicator.

Half the people who had this surgery here waited less than the median, and half waited longer. Of the 186 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 82 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 42 days in 2013–14 to 72 days in 2024–25 — up 71% — while the national median rose from 56 days to 73 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Gympie Hospital, about 90 km away, at 63 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Kingaroy Hospital72 daysnot published36 surgeries
Queensland (all public hospitals)70 days3.0%3303 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)73 days5.0%16694 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 73 days marks the national median.

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy by financial year at Kingaroy Hospital, compared with Queensland and Australiadays038751131502011–122014–152017–182020–212023–242024–25Kingaroy Hospital 72QLD 70Australia 73
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodKingaroy Hospital (days)QLD (days)Australia (days)
2011–12not reported for this period5457
2012–13not published6560
2013–14425656
2014–15414751
2015–16285552
2016–17475852
2017–181436156
2018–19696659
2019–20557467
2020–21786476
2021–221187077
2022–23796482
2023–24696470
2024–25727073

Queensland's quarterly figures for general surgery

These are not figures for inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy. Queensland reports by surgical specialty, not by procedure. A specialty covers many different operations, so a specialty figure is never a figure for any one of them.

Queensland Health publishes its own figures every three months. They count differently from the national figures above and are never combined with them. This quarter ends after the national reporting period, so it is the more recent of the two.

Covers July to September 2025, published by Queensland Health on 28 October 2025. Reported as Kingaroy.

Patients treated
45 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Treated within the recommended time
97.8%July to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Still waiting at the end of the quarter
41 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Waiting longer than recommended
0 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025

Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.

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