Hernia repair waiting time at Gosford Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for hernia repair — published by the source as “Herniorrhaphy” — at this public hospital in the Gosford 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: 303 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 124 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 15.3%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 155 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 82 days in 2016–17 to 303 days in 2024–25 — up 270% — while the national median rose from 63 days to 86 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Wyong Hospital, about 22 km away, at 125 days. Here, 15.3% 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
Gosford Hospital	303 days	15.3%	124 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.

Wyong HospitalNSW · about 22 km away125 days
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai HospitalNSW · about 38 km away91 days
Northern Beaches HospitalNSW · about 38 km away64 days
Royal North Shore HospitalNSW · about 47 km away92 days
Ryde HospitalNSW · about 48 km away52 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 52 km away47 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst]NSW · about 52 km away69 days
Belmont HospitalNSW · about 52 km away92 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	Gosford Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	82	83	63
2017–18	113	81	67
2018–19	103	85	69
2019–20	104	87	78
2020–21	207	127	92
2021–22	136	113	97
2022–23	332	145	108
2023–24	316	124	87
2024–25	303	132	86

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

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