Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy waiting time at Esperance Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Inguinal herniotomy/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: 219 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 14 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 186 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 167 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 Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Esperance Hospital	219 days	not published	14 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.

Kalgoorlie Health CampusWA · about 349 km away54 days
Albany HospitalWA · about 387 km away74 days
Narrogin HospitalWA · about 450 km away54 days
Northam HospitalWA · about 547 km away85 days
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial HospitalWA · about 580 km away49 days
Bunbury HospitalWA · about 581 km away76 days
Peel Health CampusWA · about 589 km away36 days
St John of God Midland Public HospitalWA · about 591 km away166 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

Esperance Hospital
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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	Esperance Hospital (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	not published	29	57
2012–13	28	34	60
2013–14	49	34	56
2014–15	43	35	51
2015–16	50	35	52
2016–17	79	39	52
2017–18	118	49	56
2018–19	76	50	59
2019–20	101	56	67
2020–21	78	65	76
2021–22	87	68	77
2022–23	176	78	82
2023–24	80	61	70
2024–25	219	79	73

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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