Inguinal hernia repair waiting time at Hawkesbury 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 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: 173 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 105 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 3.8%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 186 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 157 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 359 days in 2011–12 to 173 days in 2024–25 — down 52% — while the national median rose from 57 days to 73 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Blacktown Hospital, about 20 km away, at 148 days. Here, 3.8% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 5.0%.

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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
Hawkesbury Hospital	173 days	3.8%	105 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.

Mount Druitt HospitalNSW · about 17 km away314 days
Nepean HospitalNSW · about 19 km away317 days
Blacktown HospitalNSW · about 20 km away148 days
The Children's Hospital at WestmeadNSW · about 26 km away9 days
Westmead HospitalNSW · about 27 km away107 days
Fairfield HospitalNSW · about 29 km away323 days
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai HospitalNSW · about 29 km away85 days
Ryde HospitalNSW · about 32 km away50 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	Hawkesbury Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	359	72	57
2012–13	288	71	60
2013–14	194	69	56
2014–15	238	70	51
2015–16	90	69	52
2016–17	49	72	52
2017–18	77	75	56
2018–19	46	77	59
2019–20	66	78	67
2020–21	116	92	76
2021–22	89	90	77
2022–23	140	115	82
2023–24	176	97	70
2024–25	173	101	73

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

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