Inguinal hernia repair waiting time at Wyong Hospital

The median wait for inguinal hernia repair — published by the source as "Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy" — at this public hospital in the Kanwal area of New South Wales was 296 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: 296 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 130 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 17.7%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 177 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 87 days in 2011–12 to 296 days in 2024–25 — up 240% — while the national median rose from 57 days to 73 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Gosford Hospital, about 22 km away, at 273 days. Here, 17.7% 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
Wyong Hospital	296 days	17.7%	130 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	101 days	8.1%	5703 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.

Gosford HospitalNSW · about 22 km away273 days
Belmont HospitalNSW · about 31 km away87 days
John Hunter HospitalNSW · about 43 km away43 days
Calvary Mater NewcastleNSW · about 46 km away66 days
Cessnock HospitalNSW · about 50 km away244 days
Northern Beaches HospitalNSW · about 59 km away78 days
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai HospitalNSW · about 60 km away85 days
Maitland HospitalNSW · about 60 km away301 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	Wyong Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	87	72	57
2012–13	98	71	60
2013–14	85	69	56
2014–15	70	70	51
2015–16	62	69	52
2016–17	70	72	52
2017–18	57	75	56
2018–19	66	77	59
2019–20	63	78	67
2020–21	89	92	76
2021–22	90	90	77
2022–23	127	115	82
2023–24	109	97	70
2024–25	296	101	73

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

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