Inguinal hernia repair waiting time at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital

The median wait for inguinal hernia repair — published by the source as "Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy" — at this public hospital in the Kings Park area of Western Australia was 72 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: 72 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 64 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 1.6%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 82 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 103 days in 2011–12 to 72 days in 2024–25 — down 30% — 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 0 km away, at 22 days. Here, 1.6% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 5.0%.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Inguinal herniotomy/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 Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital	72 days	1.6%	64 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.

Perth Children's HospitalWA · about 0 km away22 days
Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street CampusWA · about 5 km away189 days
Osborne Park HospitalWA · about 9 km away99 days
Bentley Health ServiceWA · about 11 km away101 days
Fremantle Hospital and Health ServiceWA · about 12 km away89 days
Fiona Stanley HospitalWA · about 12 km away140 days
St John of God Midland Public HospitalWA · about 20 km away166 days
Joondalup Health Campus (Public)WA · about 26 km away26 days

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

How the wait has changed

Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital
WA
Australia

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	Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	103	29	57
2012–13	74	34	60
2013–14	70	34	56
2014–15	43	35	51
2015–16	34	35	52
2016–17	47	39	52
2017–18	66	49	56
2018–19	61	50	59
2019–20	108	56	67
2020–21	114	65	76
2021–22	124	68	77
2022–23	160	78	82
2023–24	63	61	70
2024–25	72	79	73

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

All surgery at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital · Inguinal hernia repair across Australia · Inguinal hernia repair in Western Australia