Surgery Waits

Hernia repair waiting time at Maitland Hospital

The median wait for hernia repair — published by the source as "Herniorrhaphy" — at this public hospital in the Telarah area of New South Wales was 347 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
347 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
46 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 169 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 167 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 80 days in 2016–17 to 347 days in 2024–25 — up 334% — while the national median rose from 63 days to 86 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Cessnock Hospital, about 22 km away, at 263 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Herniorrhaphy, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Maitland Hospital347 daysnot published46 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)132 days10.6%4206 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)86 days6.9%12195 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 86 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 herniorrhaphy by financial year at Maitland Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays01002003004002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Maitland Hospital 347NSW 132Australia 86
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Herniorrhaphy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodMaitland Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–17808363
2017–18658167
2018–19998569
2019–202418778
2020–2128312792
2021–2217811397
2022–23235145108
2023–2423312487
2024–2534713286

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

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