Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy waiting time at Albany Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy at this public hospital, with the nearest alternatives that published a figure.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026

Median wait: 74 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 81 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 3.7%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 85 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Albany Hospital	74 days	3.7%	81 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.

Narrogin HospitalWA · about 240 km away54 days
Bunbury HospitalWA · about 276 km away76 days
Busselton Health CampusWA · about 281 km away103 days
Peel Health CampusWA · about 339 km away36 days
Rockingham General HospitalWA · about 360 km away111 days
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial HospitalWA · about 364 km away49 days
Fiona Stanley HospitalWA · about 378 km away140 days
Bentley Health ServiceWA · about 380 km away101 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 500 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Albany Hospital
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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	Albany Hospital (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	31	29	57
2012–13	47	34	60
2013–14	61	34	56
2014–15	77	35	51
2015–16	68	35	52
2016–17	48	39	52
2017–18	57	49	56
2018–19	73	50	59
2019–20	102	56	67
2020–21	103	65	76
2021–22	84	68	77
2022–23	61	78	82
2023–24	96	61	70
2024–25	74	79	73

What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

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