Surgery Waits

Hernia repair waiting time at Karratha Health Campus

The median wait for hernia repair — published by the source as "Herniorrhaphy" — at this public hospital in the Pegs Creek area of Western Australia was 70 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
70 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
30 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 46 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 65 days in 2018–19 to 70 days in 2024–25 — up 8% — while the national median rose from 69 days to 86 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Hedland Health Campus, about 186 km away, at 44 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
Karratha Health Campus70 daysnot published30 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)78 days5.9%1430 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 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 herniorrhaphy by financial year at Karratha Health Campus, compared with Western Australia and Australiadays03163941252016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Karratha Health Campus 70WA 78Australia 86
  • Karratha Health Campus
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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 periodKarratha Health Campus (days)WA (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not reported for this period4363
2017–18not reported for this period5667
2018–19655869
2019–20296978
2020–21797892
2021–22688997
2022–238294108
2023–24447687
2024–25707886

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

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