Hernia repair waiting time at Hawkesbury Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for hernia repair — published by the source as “Herniorrhaphy” — at this public hospital in the Windsor 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: 71 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 88 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 49 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 65 days in 2016–17 to 71 days in 2024–25 — up 9% — while the national median rose from 63 days to 86 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Ryde Hospital, about 32 km away, at 52 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
Hawkesbury Hospital	71 days	0.0%	88 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.

Mount Druitt HospitalNSW · about 17 km away327 days
Nepean HospitalNSW · about 19 km away220 days
Blacktown HospitalNSW · about 20 km away239 days
The Children's Hospital at WestmeadNSW · about 26 km away220 days
Westmead HospitalNSW · about 27 km away102 days
Fairfield HospitalNSW · about 29 km away319 days
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai HospitalNSW · about 29 km away91 days
Ryde HospitalNSW · about 32 km away52 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	Hawkesbury Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	65	83	63
2017–18	71	81	67
2018–19	47	85	69
2019–20	42	87	78
2020–21	111	127	92
2021–22	247	113	97
2022–23	145	145	108
2023–24	130	124	87
2024–25	71	132	86

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

All surgery at Hawkesbury Hospital · Hernia repair across Australia · Hernia repair in New South Wales