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Hiatus hernia repair waiting times in New South Wales

The median wait for hiatus hernia repair in New South Wales public hospitals was 104 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The national median was 88 days. The source publishes this surgery as "Repair of obstructing hiatus hernia".

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

34 public hospitals in New South Wales reported hiatus 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 "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.

14 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 88 days marks the national median.

Repair of obstructing hiatus hernia 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 Concord Repatriation Hospital 41 days not published 36 surgeries
2 Prince of Wales Hospital 54 days not published 15 surgeries
3 Royal Prince Alfred Hospital 57 days not published 32 surgeries
4 Blacktown Hospital 79 days not published 11 surgeries
4 St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst] 79 days not published 13 surgeries
6 Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital 81 days 0.0% 56 surgeries
6 Tweed Valley Hospital 81 days not published 21 surgeries
8 Orange Health Service 95 days not published 27 surgeries
9 Nepean Hospital 112 days not published 31 surgeries
10 Gosford Hospital 117 days not published 23 surgeries
10 St George Hospital NSW 117 days not published 30 surgeries
12 Wollongong Hospital 126 days not published 30 surgeries
13 Dubbo Hospital 161 days not published 19 surgeries
14 John Hunter Hospital 267 days not published 22 surgeries
15 Port Macquarie Base Hospital 284 days not published 15 surgeries
16 Lismore Base Hospital 301 days not published 20 surgeries
17 Wagga Wagga Hospital 343 days not published 20 surgeries
18 Belmont Hospital 365 days not published 11 surgeries
18 Sutherland Hospital 365 days not published 10 surgeries
20 Coffs Harbour Hospital 399 days not published 18 surgeries
unranked Bathurst Base Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Calvary Mater Newcastle not published not published not published
unranked Campbelltown Hospital not published not published 6 surgeries
unranked Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital not published not published 5 surgeries
unranked Liverpool Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Maitland Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Manning Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Northern Beaches Hospital not published not published 6 surgeries
unranked Royal North Shore Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Shellharbour Hospital not published not published 8 surgeries
unranked Tamworth Hospital not published not published not published
unranked The Children's Hospital at Westmead not published not published not published
unranked Westmead Hospital not published not published 8 surgeries
unranked Wyong Hospital not published not published not published

Ranked by area in New South Wales: near Camperdown · near Randwick.

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The median wait for hiatus hernia repair in New South Wales public hospitals was 104 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

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

Attribution: Surgery Waits (https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/repair-of-obstructing-hiatus-hernia/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.

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 New South Wales.