Inguinal hernia repair waiting time at Goulburn Base 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 Goulburn 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: 121 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 31 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 144 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 92 days in 2011–12 to 121 days in 2024–25 — up 32% — while the national median rose from 57 days to 73 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Bowral Hospital, about 71 km away, at 63 days.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick “Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy” and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Goulburn Base Hospital	121 days	not published	31 surgeries
Australian Capital Territory (all public hospitals)	133 days	10.3%	252 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	101 days	8.1%	5703 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.

Bowral HospitalNSW · about 71 km away63 days
Queanbeyan HospitalNSW · about 80 km away70 days
North Canberra HospitalACT · about 80 km away191 days
Shoalhaven HospitalNSW · about 82 km away308 days
The Canberra HospitalACT · about 87 km away90 days
Shellharbour HospitalNSW · about 105 km away92 days
Wollongong HospitalNSW · about 113 km away76 days
Campbelltown HospitalNSW · about 125 km away322 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

Some of these hospitals are in another state — a public hospital referral can cross the border, so ask your GP what that would mean for you.

How the wait has changed

Goulburn Base 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	Goulburn Base Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	92	72	57
2012–13	80	71	60
2013–14	63	69	56
2014–15	81	70	51
2015–16	154	69	52
2016–17	80	72	52
2017–18	84	75	56
2018–19	79	77	59
2019–20	66	78	67
2020–21	79	92	76
2021–22	193	90	77
2022–23	198	115	82
2023–24	99	97	70
2024–25	121	101	73

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

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