Surgery Waits

Hernia repair waiting time at Gladstone Hospital

The median wait for hernia repair — published by the source as "Herniorrhaphy" — at this public hospital in the West Gladstone area of Queensland was 183 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
183 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 130 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 52 days in 2016–17 to 183 days in 2024–25 — up 252% — while the national median rose from 63 days to 86 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Bundaberg Base Hospital, about 158 km away, at 86 days.

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
Gladstone Hospital183 daysnot published49 surgeries
Queensland (all public hospitals)87 days4.3%2476 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.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for herniorrhaphy by financial year at Gladstone Hospital, compared with Queensland and Australiadays0501001502002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Gladstone Hospital 183QLD 87Australia 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 periodGladstone Hospital (days)QLD (days)Australia (days)
2016–17526963
2017–18767567
2018–19657769
2019–20588578
2020–21427892
2021–22608597
2022–238280108
2023–241368087
2024–251838786

Queensland's quarterly figures for general surgery

These are not figures for herniorrhaphy. Queensland reports by surgical specialty, not by procedure. A specialty covers many different operations, so a specialty figure is never a figure for any one of them.

Queensland Health publishes its own figures every three months. They count differently from the national figures above and are never combined with them. This quarter ends after the national reporting period, so it is the more recent of the two.

Covers July to September 2025, published by Queensland Health on 28 October 2025. Reported as Gladstone.

Patients treated
202 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Treated within the recommended time
73.8%July to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Still waiting at the end of the quarter
401 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Waiting longer than recommended
200 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025

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

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