Inguinal hernia repair waiting time at Peel Health Campus

The median wait for inguinal hernia repair — published by the source as "Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy" — at this public hospital in the Greenfields area of Western Australia was 36 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: 36 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 89 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 186 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 29 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 7 days in 2011–12 to 36 days in 2024–25 — up 414% — while the national median rose from 57 days to 73 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Perth Children's Hospital, about 63 km away, at 22 days. Here, 0.0% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 5.0%.

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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
Peel Health Campus	36 days	0.0%	89 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)	79 days	3.2%	1576 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	73 days	5.0%	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.

Rockingham General HospitalWA · about 27 km away111 days
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial HospitalWA · about 51 km away49 days
Fiona Stanley HospitalWA · about 52 km away140 days
Fremantle Hospital and Health ServiceWA · about 53 km away89 days
Bentley Health ServiceWA · about 61 km away101 days
Perth Children's HospitalWA · about 63 km away22 days
Sir Charles Gairdner HospitalWA · about 63 km away72 days
Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street CampusWA · about 65 km away189 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 Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Peel Health Campus (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	7	29	57
2012–13	8	34	60
2013–14	10	34	56
2014–15	8	35	51
2015–16	8	35	52
2016–17	13	39	52
2017–18	20	49	56
2018–19	17	50	59
2019–20	23	56	67
2020–21	52	65	76
2021–22	57	68	77
2022–23	not published	78	82
2023–24	not published	61	70
2024–25	36	79	73

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

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