Hernia repair waiting time at Wyong Hospital

The median wait for hernia repair — published by the source as "Herniorrhaphy" — at this public hospital in the Kanwal area of New South Wales was 125 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: 125 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 101 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 16.8%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 114 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 67 days in 2016–17 to 125 days in 2024–25 — up 87% — while the national median rose from 63 days to 86 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Belmont Hospital, about 31 km away, at 92 days. Here, 16.8% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 6.9%.

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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
Wyong Hospital	125 days	16.8%	101 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

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 86 days marks the national median.

Gosford HospitalNSW · about 22 km away303 days
Belmont HospitalNSW · about 31 km away92 days
John Hunter HospitalNSW · about 43 km away189 days
Calvary Mater NewcastleNSW · about 46 km away68 days
Cessnock HospitalNSW · about 50 km away263 days
Northern Beaches HospitalNSW · about 59 km away64 days
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai HospitalNSW · about 60 km away91 days
Maitland HospitalNSW · about 60 km away347 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 Herniorrhaphy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Wyong Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	67	83	63
2017–18	50	81	67
2018–19	67	85	69
2019–20	85	87	78
2020–21	82	127	92
2021–22	88	113	97
2022–23	116	145	108
2023–24	113	124	87
2024–25	125	132	86

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

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