Hernia repair waiting time at Bentley Health Service

The median wait for hernia repair — published by the source as "Herniorrhaphy" — at this public hospital in the St James area of Western Australia was 118 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: 118 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 49 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: not published2024–25 · released 28 May 2026 — Reported data did not meet the criteria to calculate this indicator.

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 110 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 37 days in 2016–17 to 118 days in 2024–25 — up 219% — while the national median rose from 63 days to 86 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Perth Children's Hospital, about 11 km away, at 49 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Herniorrhaphy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Bentley Health Service	118 days	not published	49 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)	78 days	5.9%	1430 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	86 days	6.9%	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.

Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street CampusWA · about 8 km away263 days
Fiona Stanley HospitalWA · about 10 km away201 days
Perth Children's HospitalWA · about 11 km away49 days
Sir Charles Gairdner HospitalWA · about 11 km away71 days
St John of God Midland Public HospitalWA · about 14 km away189 days
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial HospitalWA · about 17 km away58 days
Osborne Park HospitalWA · about 18 km away77 days
Fremantle Hospital and Health ServiceWA · about 18 km away85 days

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

How the wait has changed

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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 period	Bentley Health Service (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	37	43	63
2017–18	40	56	67
2018–19	27	58	69
2019–20	40	69	78
2020–21	42	78	92
2021–22	66	89	97
2022–23	63	94	108
2023–24	58	76	87
2024–25	118	78	86

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

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