Inguinal hernia repair waiting time at Mount Druitt 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 Rooty Hill 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: 314 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 217 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 0.9%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 181 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 56 days in 2011–12 to 314 days in 2024–25 — up 461% — while the national median rose from 57 days to 73 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Blacktown Hospital, about 8 km away, at 148 days. Here, 0.9% 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
Mount Druitt Hospital	314 days	0.9%	217 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.

Blacktown HospitalNSW · about 8 km away148 days
Nepean HospitalNSW · about 11 km away317 days
Fairfield HospitalNSW · about 13 km away323 days
Westmead HospitalNSW · about 15 km away107 days
The Children's Hospital at WestmeadNSW · about 15 km away9 days
Hawkesbury HospitalNSW · about 17 km away173 days
Liverpool HospitalNSW · about 20 km away183 days
Auburn HospitalNSW · about 22 km away71 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	Mount Druitt Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	56	72	57
2012–13	38	71	60
2013–14	48	69	56
2014–15	47	70	51
2015–16	42	69	52
2016–17	66	72	52
2017–18	81	75	56
2018–19	71	77	59
2019–20	72	78	67
2020–21	85	92	76
2021–22	89	90	77
2022–23	96	115	82
2023–24	106	97	70
2024–25	314	101	73

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

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