Inguinal hernia repair waiting time at Fiona Stanley 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 Murdoch 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: 140 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 17 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 150 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 57 days in 2014–15 to 140 days in 2024–25 — up 146% — while the national median rose from 51 days to 73 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Fremantle Hospital and Health Service, about 9 km away, at 89 days.

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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
Fiona Stanley Hospital	140 days	not published	17 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.

Fremantle Hospital and Health ServiceWA · about 9 km away89 days
Bentley Health ServiceWA · about 10 km away101 days
Perth Children's HospitalWA · about 12 km away22 days
Sir Charles Gairdner HospitalWA · about 12 km away72 days
Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street CampusWA · about 13 km away189 days
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial HospitalWA · about 18 km away49 days
Osborne Park HospitalWA · about 21 km away99 days
St John of God Midland Public HospitalWA · about 25 km away166 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	Fiona Stanley Hospital (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	not reported for this period	29	57
2012–13	not reported for this period	34	60
2013–14	not reported for this period	34	56
2014–15	57	35	51
2015–16	65	35	52
2016–17	60	39	52
2017–18	87	49	56
2018–19	45	50	59
2019–20	78	56	67
2020–21	86	65	76
2021–22	78	68	77
2022–23	125	78	82
2023–24	not published	61	70
2024–25	140	79	73

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

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