Inguinal hernia repair waiting time at Bentley Health Service

Median wait, long waits and volumes for inguinal hernia repair — published by the source as “Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy” — at this public hospital in the St James area of Western Australia, 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: 101 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 66 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 7.6%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 132 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 28 days in 2011–12 to 101 days in 2024–25 — up 261% — 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 11 km away, at 22 days. Here, 7.6% 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
Bentley Health Service	101 days	7.6%	66 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.

Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street CampusWA · about 8 km away189 days
Fiona Stanley HospitalWA · about 10 km away140 days
Perth Children's HospitalWA · about 11 km away22 days
Sir Charles Gairdner HospitalWA · about 11 km away72 days
St John of God Midland Public HospitalWA · about 14 km away166 days
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial HospitalWA · about 17 km away49 days
Osborne Park HospitalWA · about 18 km away99 days
Fremantle Hospital and Health ServiceWA · about 18 km away89 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	Bentley Health Service (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	28	29	57
2012–13	43	34	60
2013–14	36	34	56
2014–15	39	35	51
2015–16	36	35	52
2016–17	35	39	52
2017–18	50	49	56
2018–19	36	50	59
2019–20	26	56	67
2020–21	34	65	76
2021–22	48	68	77
2022–23	50	78	82
2023–24	38	61	70
2024–25	101	79	73

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

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