Surgery Waits

Hernia repair waiting time at Albury Wodonga Health [Wodonga Campus]

The median wait for hernia repair — published by the source as "Herniorrhaphy" — at this public hospital in the Wodonga area of Victoria was 130 days in 2024–25.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released

These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.

Median wait
130 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
100 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
24.0%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 118 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 56 days in 2016–17 to 130 days in 2024–25 — up 132% — while the national median rose from 63 days to 86 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Northeast Health Wangaratta, about 56 km away, at 49 days. Here, 24.0% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 6.9%.

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

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Herniorrhaphy, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Albury Wodonga Health [Wodonga Campus]130 days24.0%100 surgeries
Australian Capital Territory (all public hospitals)140 days12.7%229 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)132 days10.6%4206 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)56 days3.6%3381 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)86 days6.9%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.

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

Some of these hospitals are in another state — a public hospital referral can cross the border, so ask your GP what that would mean for you.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for herniorrhaphy by financial year at Albury Wodonga Health [Wodonga Campus], compared with Victoria and Australiadays0631251882502016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Albury Wodonga Health [Wodonga Campus] 130VIC 56Australia 86
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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 periodAlbury Wodonga Health [Wodonga Campus] (days)VIC (days)Australia (days)
2016–17564863
2017–18644967
2018–19574969
2019–20655478
2020–2112410692
2021–229811097
2022–23152129108
2023–242326987
2024–251305686

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

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