Inguinal hernia repair waiting time at Broome Hospital
The median wait for inguinal hernia repair — published by the source as "Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy" — at this public hospital in the Broome area of Western Australia was 113 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
- 113 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 35 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 186 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 142 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has risen from 36 days in 2011–12 to 113 days in 2024–25 — up 214% — while the national median rose from 57 days to 73 days.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Broome Hospital | 113 days | not published | 35 surgeries |
| Western Australia (all public hospitals) | 79 days | 3.2% | 1576 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 73 days | 5.0% | 16694 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
No other public hospital within 1,000 km published a figure for this surgery in this period.
How the wait has changed
- Broome Hospital
- WA
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Broome Hospital (days) | WA (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011–12 | 36 | 29 | 57 |
| 2012–13 | 58 | 34 | 60 |
| 2013–14 | 63 | 34 | 56 |
| 2014–15 | not published | 35 | 51 |
| 2015–16 | 53 | 35 | 52 |
| 2016–17 | not published | 39 | 52 |
| 2017–18 | 49 | 49 | 56 |
| 2018–19 | 66 | 50 | 59 |
| 2019–20 | 73 | 56 | 67 |
| 2020–21 | 63 | 65 | 76 |
| 2021–22 | 77 | 68 | 77 |
| 2022–23 | 74 | 78 | 82 |
| 2023–24 | 60 | 61 | 70 |
| 2024–25 | 113 | 79 | 73 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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