Hernia repair waiting time at Cowra Health Service

The median wait for hernia repair — published by the source as "Herniorrhaphy" — at this public hospital in the Cowra area of New South Wales was 89 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: 89 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 15 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 78 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 29 days in 2016–17 to 89 days in 2024–25 — up 207% — while the national median rose from 63 days to 86 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.

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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
Cowra Health Service	89 days	not published	15 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	132 days	10.6%	4206 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.

Young HospitalNSW · about 66 km away224 days
Orange Health ServiceNSW · about 68 km away298 days
Lachlan Health Service - ParkesNSW · about 90 km away232 days
Bathurst Base HospitalNSW · about 94 km away200 days
Temora HospitalNSW · about 126 km away116 days
Lithgow HospitalNSW · about 138 km away170 days
Goulburn Base HospitalNSW · about 138 km away178 days
Blue Mountains HospitalNSW · about 151 km away213 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	Cowra Health Service (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	29	83	63
2017–18	32	81	67
2018–19	59	85	69
2019–20	42	87	78
2020–21	35	127	92
2021–22	not published	113	97
2022–23	102	145	108
2023–24	44	124	87
2024–25	89	132	86

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

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