Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy waiting time at Northam Hospital

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: 85 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 13 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 105 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
Northam Hospital	85 days	not published	13 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)	79 days	3.2%	1576 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.

St John of God Midland Public HospitalWA · about 67 km away166 days
Bentley Health ServiceWA · about 79 km away101 days
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial HospitalWA · about 81 km away49 days
Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street CampusWA · about 82 km away189 days
Joondalup Health Campus (Public)WA · about 84 km away26 days
Osborne Park HospitalWA · about 85 km away99 days
Perth Children's HospitalWA · about 87 km away22 days
Sir Charles Gairdner HospitalWA · about 87 km away72 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	Northam Hospital (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	7	29	57
2012–13	8	34	60
2013–14	not published	34	56
2014–15	not reported for this period	35	51
2015–16	not published	35	52
2016–17	12	39	52
2017–18	14	49	56
2018–19	38	50	59
2019–20	29	56	67
2020–21	29	65	76
2021–22	not published	68	77
2022–23	89	78	82
2023–24	32	61	70
2024–25	85	79	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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