Hiatus hernia repair waiting time at St George Hospital NSW
Half of patients at St George Hospital NSW waited 117 days or less for hiatus hernia repair in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Repair of obstructing hiatus hernia". This public hospital is in the Kogarah area of New South Wales.
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
- 117 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 30 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 41 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 24 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has fallen from 180 days in 2016–17 to 117 days in 2024–25 — down 35% — while the national median rose from 66 days to 88 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, about 10 km away, at 57 days.
Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Repair of obstructing hiatus hernia" and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.
How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| St George Hospital NSW | 117 days | not published | 30 surgeries |
| New South Wales (all public hospitals) | 104 days | 14.1% | 511 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 88 days | 9.2% | 1170 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 88 days marks the national median.
Sutherland Hospital, NSW · about 8 km away: 365 days
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, NSW · about 10 km away: 57 days
Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital, NSW · about 11 km away: 81 days
Prince of Wales Hospital, NSW · about 11 km away: 54 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst], NSW · about 13 km away: 79 days
Concord Repatriation Hospital, NSW · about 15 km away: 41 days
Blacktown Hospital, NSW · about 29 km away: 79 days
Nepean Hospital, NSW · about 45 km away: 112 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- St George Hospital NSW
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | St George Hospital NSW (days) | NSW (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 180 | 80 | 66 |
| 2017–18 | 275 | 82 | 79 |
| 2018–19 | 261 | 79 | 78 |
| 2019–20 | 70 | 83 | 81 |
| 2020–21 | 273 | 118 | 91 |
| 2021–22 | 87 | 126 | 98 |
| 2022–23 | 145 | 131 | 114 |
| 2023–24 | 97 | 97 | 89 |
| 2024–25 | 117 | 104 | 88 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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