Hernia repair waiting time at The Children's Hospital at Westmead
The median wait for hernia repair — published by the source as "Herniorrhaphy" — at this public hospital in the Westmead area of New South Wales was 220 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
- 220 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 169 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 141 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has risen from 144 days in 2016–17 to 220 days in 2024–25 — up 53% — while the national median rose from 63 days to 86 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Westmead Hospital, about 0 km away, at 102 days.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Children's Hospital at Westmead | 220 days | not published | 24 surgeries |
| New South Wales (all public hospitals) | 132 days | 10.6% | 4206 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 86 days | 6.9% | 12195 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- The Children's Hospital at Westmead
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | The Children's Hospital at Westmead (days) | NSW (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 144 | 83 | 63 |
| 2017–18 | 119 | 81 | 67 |
| 2018–19 | 210 | 85 | 69 |
| 2019–20 | 170 | 87 | 78 |
| 2020–21 | 271 | 127 | 92 |
| 2021–22 | 234 | 113 | 97 |
| 2022–23 | 299 | 145 | 108 |
| 2023–24 | 187 | 124 | 87 |
| 2024–25 | 220 | 132 | 86 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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