Inguinal hernia repair waiting time at St John of God Midland Public Hospital

The median wait for inguinal hernia repair — published by the source as "Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy" — at this public hospital in the Midland area of Western Australia was 166 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: 166 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 82 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 13.4%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 156 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 27 days in 2015–16 to 166 days in 2024–25 — up 515% — while the national median rose from 52 days to 73 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Bentley Health Service, about 14 km away, at 101 days. Here, 13.4% 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
St John of God Midland Public Hospital	166 days	13.4%	82 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)	79 days	3.2%	1576 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.

Bentley Health ServiceWA · about 14 km away101 days
Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street CampusWA · about 15 km away189 days
Osborne Park HospitalWA · about 19 km away99 days
Perth Children's HospitalWA · about 20 km away22 days
Sir Charles Gairdner HospitalWA · about 20 km away72 days
Fiona Stanley HospitalWA · about 25 km away140 days
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial HospitalWA · about 27 km away49 days
Joondalup Health Campus (Public)WA · about 28 km away26 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 Inguinal herniotomy/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)
2011–12	not reported for this period	29	57
2012–13	not reported for this period	34	60
2013–14	not reported for this period	34	56
2014–15	not reported for this period	35	51
2015–16	27	35	52
2016–17	41	39	52
2017–18	66	49	56
2018–19	123	50	59
2019–20	209	56	67
2020–21	227	65	76
2021–22	216	68	77
2022–23	94	78	82
2023–24	124	61	70
2024–25	166	79	73

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

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