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Inguinal hernia repair waiting times in Western Australia

The median wait for inguinal hernia repair in Western Australia public hospitals was 79 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.

28 public hospitals in Western Australia 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.

7 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 Western Australia 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 Perth Children's Hospital 22 days 2.7% 73 surgeries
2 Joondalup Health Campus (Public) 26 days 0.0% 149 surgeries
3 Peel Health Campus 36 days 0.0% 89 surgeries
4 Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 49 days 0.0% 157 surgeries
5 Kalgoorlie Health Campus 54 days not published 24 surgeries
5 Narrogin Hospital 54 days not published 19 surgeries
7 Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 72 days 1.6% 64 surgeries
8 Albany Hospital 74 days 3.7% 81 surgeries
9 Bunbury Hospital 76 days 3.9% 77 surgeries
10 Northam Hospital 85 days not published 13 surgeries
11 Fremantle Hospital and Health Service 89 days 1.6% 129 surgeries
12 Geraldton Hospital 97 days 0.0% 54 surgeries
13 Osborne Park Hospital 99 days 3.4% 117 surgeries
14 Bentley Health Service 101 days 7.6% 66 surgeries
15 Busselton Health Campus 103 days 3.2% 93 surgeries
16 Rockingham General Hospital 111 days 2.5% 119 surgeries
17 Broome Hospital 113 days not published 35 surgeries
18 Fiona Stanley Hospital 140 days not published 17 surgeries
19 St John of God Midland Public Hospital 166 days 13.4% 82 surgeries
20 Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus 189 days 18.0% 61 surgeries
21 Esperance Hospital 219 days not published 14 surgeries
unranked Bridgetown Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Derby Hospital not published not published 5 surgeries
unranked Hedland Health Campus not published not published 6 surgeries
unranked Karratha Health Campus not published not published 9 surgeries
unranked Katanning Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Kununurra Hospital not published not published 9 surgeries
unranked Warren Hospital not published not published 7 surgeries

Ranked by area in Western Australia: near Murdoch · near Nedlands · near the Perth CBD.

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The median wait for inguinal hernia repair in Western Australia public hospitals was 79 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

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

Attribution: Surgery Waits (https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/inguinal-hernia-repair/wa/), 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.

Waiting times differ across state borders, and a referral can cross one — read what that means. Compare with every other state, or see every surgery reported in Western Australia.