Hernia repair waiting time at St John of God Midland Public Hospital

The median wait for hernia repair — published by the source as "Herniorrhaphy" — at this public hospital in the Midland area of Western Australia was 189 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: 189 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 103 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 29.1%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 169 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 132 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 41 days in 2016–17 to 189 days in 2024–25 — up 361% — while the national median rose from 63 days to 86 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Bentley Health Service, about 14 km away, at 118 days. Here, 29.1% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 6.9%.

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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
St John of God Midland Public Hospital	189 days	29.1%	103 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)	78 days	5.9%	1430 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	86 days	6.9%	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.

Bentley Health ServiceWA · about 14 km away118 days
Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street CampusWA · about 15 km away263 days
Osborne Park HospitalWA · about 19 km away77 days
Perth Children's HospitalWA · about 20 km away49 days
Sir Charles Gairdner HospitalWA · about 20 km away71 days
Fiona Stanley HospitalWA · about 25 km away201 days
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial HospitalWA · about 27 km away58 days
Joondalup Health Campus (Public)WA · about 28 km away24 days

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

How the wait has changed

St John of God Midland Public Hospital
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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 period	St John of God Midland Public Hospital (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	41	43	63
2017–18	80	56	67
2018–19	161	58	69
2019–20	198	69	78
2020–21	190	78	92
2021–22	320	89	97
2022–23	378	94	108
2023–24	231	76	87
2024–25	189	78	86

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

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