Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy waiting time at Lachlan Health Service - Parkes

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy at this public hospital, 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: 223 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 22 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 169 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Lachlan Health Service - Parkes	223 days	not published	22 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.

Orange Health ServiceNSW · about 88 km away90 days
Cowra Health ServiceNSW · about 90 km away91 days
Dubbo HospitalNSW · about 110 km away273 days
Young HospitalNSW · about 130 km away191 days
Bathurst Base HospitalNSW · about 133 km away129 days
Mudgee Health ServiceNSW · about 146 km away129 days
Lithgow HospitalNSW · about 186 km away84 days
Blue Mountains HospitalNSW · about 209 km away84 days

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

How the wait has changed

Lachlan Health Service - Parkes
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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	Lachlan Health Service - Parkes (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	22	72	57
2012–13	33	71	60
2013–14	32	69	56
2014–15	24	70	51
2015–16	25	69	52
2016–17	not published	72	52
2017–18	not published	75	56
2018–19	not published	77	59
2019–20	not published	78	67
2020–21	88	92	76
2021–22	88	90	77
2022–23	not published	115	82
2023–24	150	97	70
2024–25	223	101	73

What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

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