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Inguinal hernia repair waiting times in New South Wales

The median wait for inguinal hernia repair in New South Wales public hospitals was 101 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The national median was 73 days. The source publishes this surgery as "Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy".

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

The source splits hernia repair in two: this page covers "Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy" — groin hernias — and every other hernia, such as umbilical, femoral and incisional hernias, is on hernia repair.

74 public hospitals in New South Wales reported inguinal hernia repair in 2024–25. They are ranked by their published median wait alone, shortest first.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy" and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.

6 hospitals have no published median wait for this surgery in this period. They are listed last, marked "not published", and are never ranked.

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 73 days marks the national median.

Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy in New South Wales public hospitals, 2024–25. Hospitals with the same median share a rank and the next rank is skipped. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Rank Hospital Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
1 Sydney Children's Hospital 7 days 1.1% 95 surgeries
2 The Children's Hospital at Westmead 9 days 0.0% 211 surgeries
3 Moree Hospital 14 days not published 11 surgeries
4 Singleton Hospital 30 days not published 24 surgeries
5 Casino and District Memorial Hospital 35 days not published 12 surgeries
6 Griffith Base Hospital 39 days not published 37 surgeries
7 John Hunter Hospital 43 days 9.1% 77 surgeries
7 Royal Prince Alfred Hospital 43 days 0.0% 180 surgeries
9 Ryde Hospital 50 days 1.6% 62 surgeries
10 Concord Repatriation Hospital 56 days 0.0% 167 surgeries
11 Grafton Base Hospital 57 days 0.0% 89 surgeries
11 Muswellbrook Hospital 57 days not published 18 surgeries
13 Armidale Hospital 58 days not published 47 surgeries
14 Ballina District Hospital 61 days 0.0% 92 surgeries
15 St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst] 62 days 1.1% 95 surgeries
16 Bowral Hospital 63 days 0.0% 65 surgeries
16 Broken Hill Hospital 63 days not published 35 surgeries
18 Calvary Mater Newcastle 66 days 0.0% 56 surgeries
19 Queanbeyan Hospital 70 days not published 34 surgeries
20 Auburn Hospital 71 days 0.0% 123 surgeries
21 Tumut Hospital 73 days not published 12 surgeries
22 Wollongong Hospital 76 days 3.2% 63 surgeries
23 Northern Beaches Hospital 78 days not published 42 surgeries
24 Lismore Base Hospital 79 days 6.1% 66 surgeries
25 Blue Mountains Hospital 84 days 1.8% 111 surgeries
25 Lithgow Hospital 84 days not published 18 surgeries
27 Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital 85 days 0.0% 87 surgeries
27 Murwillumbah District Hospital 85 days not published 12 surgeries
29 Belmont Hospital 87 days 4.6% 109 surgeries
30 Kempsey District Hospital 88 days not published 44 surgeries
30 Tweed Valley Hospital 88 days 5.2% 155 surgeries
32 Orange Health Service 90 days 3.2% 62 surgeries
33 Canterbury Hospital 91 days 2.4% 207 surgeries
33 Cowra Health Service 91 days not published 23 surgeries
35 Shellharbour Hospital 92 days 3.9% 152 surgeries
36 Prince of Wales Hospital 95 days 6.4% 171 surgeries
37 Royal North Shore Hospital 98 days 5.5% 55 surgeries
38 Moruya Hospital 105 days not published 46 surgeries
39 Westmead Hospital 107 days 15.5% 71 surgeries
40 Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital 120 days 7.1% 238 surgeries
41 Goulburn Base Hospital 121 days not published 31 surgeries
42 Bathurst Base Hospital 129 days 1.9% 54 surgeries
42 Mudgee Health Service 129 days not published 23 surgeries
44 Port Macquarie Base Hospital 138 days 10.0% 70 surgeries
45 Blacktown Hospital 148 days 1.2% 83 surgeries
46 Hawkesbury Hospital 173 days 3.8% 105 surgeries
47 St George Hospital NSW 178 days 25.0% 148 surgeries
48 Liverpool Hospital 183 days 22.3% 121 surgeries
49 Cooma Hospital and Health Service 185 days not published 16 surgeries
50 Manning Hospital 189 days 28.6% 98 surgeries
51 Young Hospital 191 days not published 19 surgeries
52 Lachlan Health Service - Parkes 223 days not published 22 surgeries
53 Cessnock Hospital 244 days not published 19 surgeries
54 South East Regional Hospital 256 days 0.0% 53 surgeries
55 Dubbo Hospital 273 days 24.3% 70 surgeries
55 Gosford Hospital 273 days 18.2% 159 surgeries
57 Wagga Wagga Hospital 274 days 23.5% 68 surgeries
58 Tamworth Hospital 282 days 5.1% 78 surgeries
59 Wyong Hospital 296 days 17.7% 130 surgeries
60 Sutherland Hospital 298 days 22.0% 100 surgeries
61 Maitland Hospital 301 days 35.8% 53 surgeries
62 Shoalhaven Hospital 308 days 34.2% 111 surgeries
63 Mount Druitt Hospital 314 days 0.9% 217 surgeries
64 Nepean Hospital 317 days 24.7% 93 surgeries
65 Campbelltown Hospital 322 days 17.9% 162 surgeries
66 Fairfield Hospital 323 days 0.0% 151 surgeries
67 Coffs Harbour Hospital 327 days 27.3% 99 surgeries
68 Macksville District Hospital 335 days not published 43 surgeries
unranked Deniliquin Hospital not published not published 6 surgeries
unranked Gloucester Soldiers' Memorial Hospital not published not published 7 surgeries
unranked Gunnedah Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Lachlan Health Service - Forbes not published not published not published
unranked Narrabri Hospital not published not published 9 surgeries
unranked Wauchope District Memorial Hospital not published not published 9 surgeries

Ranked by area in New South Wales: near Camperdown · near Gosford · near Liverpool · near Penrith · near Randwick · near St Leonards · near Westmead · near Wollongong.

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The median wait for inguinal hernia repair in New South Wales public hospitals was 101 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

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Surgery Waits, "Inguinal hernia repair waiting times in New South Wales", 2024–25 data released 28 May 2026, https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/inguinal-hernia-repair/nsw/, accessed 28 May 2026.

Attribution: Surgery Waits (https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/inguinal-hernia-repair/nsw/), from Australian Institute of Health and Welfare MyHospitals data, CC BY 3.0 AU. Reference period 2024–25, released 28 May 2026.

What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

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