Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy waiting time at Northern Beaches 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: 78 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 42 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 92 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
Northern Beaches Hospital	78 days	not published	42 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.

Royal North Shore HospitalNSW · about 9 km away98 days
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai HospitalNSW · about 12 km away85 days
Ryde HospitalNSW · about 14 km away50 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst]NSW · about 14 km away62 days
Royal Prince Alfred HospitalNSW · about 16 km away43 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 16 km away56 days
Sydney Children's HospitalNSW · about 19 km away7 days
Prince of Wales HospitalNSW · about 19 km away95 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	Northern Beaches Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	not reported for this period	72	57
2012–13	not reported for this period	71	60
2013–14	not reported for this period	69	56
2014–15	not reported for this period	70	51
2015–16	not reported for this period	69	52
2016–17	not reported for this period	72	52
2017–18	not reported for this period	75	56
2018–19	72	77	59
2019–20	57	78	67
2020–21	56	92	76
2021–22	258	90	77
2022–23	210	115	82
2023–24	80	97	70
2024–25	78	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.

All surgery at Northern Beaches Hospital · Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy across Australia · Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy in New South Wales