Inguinal hernia repair waiting time at Royal Adelaide Hospital

The median wait for inguinal hernia repair — published by the source as "Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy" — at this public hospital in the Adelaide area of South Australia was 157 days in 2024–25.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026

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

Median wait: 157 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 94 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 18.1%2024–25 · released 28 May 2026

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 154 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 92 days in 2011–12 to 157 days in 2024–25 — up 71% — while the national median rose from 57 days to 73 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Women's and Children's Hospital, about 2 km away, at 14 days. Here, 18.1% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 5.0%.

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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
Royal Adelaide Hospital	157 days	18.1%	94 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)	74 days	4.7%	1092 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	73 days	5.0%	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.

Women's and Children's HospitalSA · about 2 km away14 days
The Queen Elizabeth HospitalSA · about 6 km away110 days
Flinders Medical CentreSA · about 11 km away81 days
Modbury HospitalSA · about 13 km away103 days
Lyell McEwin HospitalSA · about 21 km away100 days
Noarlunga HospitalSA · about 26 km away44 days
Mount Barker District Soldiers' Memorial HospitalSA · about 31 km away49 days
Gawler Health ServiceSA · about 39 km away48 days

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

How the wait has changed

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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 period	Royal Adelaide Hospital (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	92	33	57
2012–13	66	29	60
2013–14	57	33	56
2014–15	73	32	51
2015–16	70	34	52
2016–17	79	38	52
2017–18	254	41	56
2018–19	209	43	59
2019–20	138	51	67
2020–21	162	58	76
2021–22	192	59	77
2022–23	205	65	82
2023–24	186	64	70
2024–25	157	74	73

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

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