Hernia repair waiting time at Northeast Health Wangaratta

The median wait for hernia repair — published by the source as "Herniorrhaphy" — at this public hospital in the Wangaratta area of Victoria was 49 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: 49 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 59 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 0.0%2024–25 · released 28 May 2026

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 21 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 52 days in 2016–17 to 49 days in 2024–25 — down 6% — while the national median rose from 63 days to 86 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Goulburn Valley Health [Shepparton], about 81 km away, at 43 days. Here, 0.0% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 6.9%.

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
Northeast Health Wangaratta	49 days	0.0%	59 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	132 days	10.6%	4206 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	56 days	3.6%	3381 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.

Albury Wodonga Health [Wodonga Campus]VIC · about 56 km away130 days
Goulburn Valley Health [Shepparton]VIC · about 81 km away43 days
Healesville Hospital and Yarra Valley HealthVIC · about 160 km away26 days
Wagga Wagga HospitalNSW · about 167 km away294 days
The Northern Hospital [Epping]VIC · about 185 km away30 days
The Bendigo HospitalVIC · about 187 km away94 days
Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]VIC · about 192 km away45 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 192 km away35 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

Some of these hospitals are in another state — a public hospital referral can cross the border, so ask your GP what that would mean for you.

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	Northeast Health Wangaratta (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	52	48	63
2017–18	65	49	67
2018–19	70	49	69
2019–20	63	54	78
2020–21	132	106	92
2021–22	99	110	97
2022–23	52	129	108
2023–24	58	69	87
2024–25	49	56	86

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

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