Hernia repair waiting time at Bunbury Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for hernia repair — published by the source as “Herniorrhaphy” — at this public hospital in the College Grove 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: 79 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 62 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 67 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 44 days in 2016–17 to 79 days in 2024–25 — up 80% — while the national median rose from 63 days to 86 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Peel Health Campus, about 93 km away, at 42 days. 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
Bunbury Hospital	79 days	0.0%	62 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.

Busselton Health CampusWA · about 44 km away90 days
Peel Health CampusWA · about 93 km away42 days
Rockingham General HospitalWA · about 120 km away120 days
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial HospitalWA · about 142 km away58 days
Fiona Stanley HospitalWA · about 145 km away201 days
Fremantle Hospital and Health ServiceWA · about 146 km away85 days
Bentley Health ServiceWA · about 154 km away118 days
Perth Children's HospitalWA · about 156 km away49 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 Herniorrhaphy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Bunbury Hospital (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	44	43	63
2017–18	57	56	67
2018–19	69	58	69
2019–20	57	69	78
2020–21	92	78	92
2021–22	101	89	97
2022–23	180	94	108
2023–24	146	76	87
2024–25	79	78	86

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

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