Surgery Waits

Inguinal hernia repair waiting time at Kalgoorlie Health Campus

The median wait for inguinal hernia repair — published by the source as "Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy" — at this public hospital in the Piccadilly area of Western Australia was 54 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
54 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
24 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 51 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 49 days in 2012–13 to 54 days in 2024–25 — up 10% — while the national median rose from 60 days to 73 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital, about 540 km away, at 49 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Kalgoorlie Health Campus54 daysnot published24 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)79 days3.2%1576 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)73 days5.0%16694 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 73 days marks the national median.

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 1000 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy by financial year at Kalgoorlie Health Campus, compared with Western Australia and Australiadays03163941252011–122014–152017–182020–212023–242024–25Kalgoorlie Health Campus 54WA 79Australia 73
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodKalgoorlie Health Campus (days)WA (days)Australia (days)
2011–12not published2957
2012–13493460
2013–14633456
2014–15623551
2015–16643552
2016–17433952
2017–18434956
2018–19495059
2019–20695667
2020–21636576
2021–22886877
2022–231037882
2023–24496170
2024–25547973

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

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