Hernia repair waiting time at Bowral Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for hernia repair — published by the source as “Herniorrhaphy” — at this public hospital in the Bowral 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: 77 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 59 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 0.0%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 60 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 61 days in 2016–17 to 77 days in 2024–25 — up 26% — while the national median rose from 63 days to 86 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period. Here, 0.0% 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
Bowral Hospital	77 days	0.0%	59 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.

Shellharbour HospitalNSW · about 39 km away140 days
Wollongong HospitalNSW · about 43 km away125 days
Shoalhaven HospitalNSW · about 45 km away312 days
Campbelltown HospitalNSW · about 57 km away349 days
Goulburn Base HospitalNSW · about 71 km away178 days
Liverpool HospitalNSW · about 78 km away351 days
Sutherland HospitalNSW · about 81 km away252 days
Bankstown Lidcombe HospitalNSW · about 82 km away112 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Bowral Hospital
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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	Bowral Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	61	83	63
2017–18	69	81	67
2018–19	98	85	69
2019–20	84	87	78
2020–21	84	127	92
2021–22	84	113	97
2022–23	147	145	108
2023–24	98	124	87
2024–25	77	132	86

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

All surgery at Bowral Hospital · Hernia repair across Australia · Hernia repair in New South Wales