Inguinal hernia repair waiting time at Blacktown Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for inguinal hernia repair — published by the source as “Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy” — at this public hospital in the Blacktown area of New South Wales, 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: 148 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 83 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 1.2%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 153 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 76 days in 2011–12 to 148 days in 2024–25 — up 95% — while the national median rose from 57 days to 73 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Westmead Hospital, about 7 km away, at 107 days. Here, 1.2% 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
Blacktown Hospital	148 days	1.2%	83 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.

Westmead HospitalNSW · about 7 km away107 days
The Children's Hospital at WestmeadNSW · about 7 km away9 days
Mount Druitt HospitalNSW · about 8 km away314 days
Fairfield HospitalNSW · about 9 km away323 days
Auburn HospitalNSW · about 14 km away71 days
Ryde HospitalNSW · about 16 km away50 days
Liverpool HospitalNSW · about 16 km away183 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 18 km away56 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	Blacktown Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	76	72	57
2012–13	71	71	60
2013–14	67	69	56
2014–15	73	70	51
2015–16	77	69	52
2016–17	189	72	52
2017–18	98	75	56
2018–19	73	77	59
2019–20	59	78	67
2020–21	83	92	76
2021–22	96	90	77
2022–23	136	115	82
2023–24	78	97	70
2024–25	148	101	73

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

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