Inguinal hernia repair waiting time at Mudgee Health Service

Median wait, long waits and volumes for inguinal hernia repair — published by the source as “Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy” — at this public hospital in the Putta Bucca 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: 129 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 23 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 146 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 93 days in 2011–12 to 129 days in 2024–25 — up 39% — while the national median rose from 57 days to 73 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Orange Health Service, about 92 km away, at 90 days.

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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
Mudgee Health Service	129 days	not published	23 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.

Bathurst Base HospitalNSW · about 89 km away129 days
Orange Health ServiceNSW · about 92 km away90 days
Dubbo HospitalNSW · about 99 km away273 days
Lithgow HospitalNSW · about 112 km away84 days
Muswellbrook HospitalNSW · about 129 km away57 days
Blue Mountains HospitalNSW · about 140 km away84 days
Lachlan Health Service - ParkesNSW · about 146 km away223 days
Singleton HospitalNSW · about 150 km away30 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	Mudgee Health Service (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	93	72	57
2012–13	121	71	60
2013–14	279	69	56
2014–15	149	70	51
2015–16	35	69	52
2016–17	54	72	52
2017–18	55	75	56
2018–19	88	77	59
2019–20	70	78	67
2020–21	63	92	76
2021–22	201	90	77
2022–23	85	115	82
2023–24	91	97	70
2024–25	129	101	73

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

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