Herniorrhaphy waiting time at Broome Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for 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: 145 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 16 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: not published2024–25 · released 28 May 2026 — Reported data did not meet the criteria to calculate this indicator.

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 125 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 Herniorrhaphy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Broome Hospital	145 days	not published	16 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)	78 days	5.9%	1430 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.

Hedland Health CampusWA · about 469 km away44 days
Karratha Health CampusWA · about 645 km away70 days
Kununurra HospitalWA · about 733 km away96 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 1000 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Broome Hospital
WA
Australia

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	Broome Hospital (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	66	43	63
2017–18	40	56	67
2018–19	138	58	69
2019–20	80	69	78
2020–21	72	78	92
2021–22	70	89	97
2022–23	73	94	108
2023–24	not published	76	87
2024–25	145	78	86

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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