Hernia repair waiting time at Orange Health Service

Median wait, long waits and volumes for hernia repair — published by the source as “Herniorrhaphy” — at this public hospital in the Spring Creek 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: 298 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 55 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 10.9%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 169 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 153 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 76 days in 2016–17 to 298 days in 2024–25 — up 292% — while the national median rose from 63 days to 86 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Bathurst Base Hospital, about 46 km away, at 200 days. Here, 10.9% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 6.9%.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Herniorrhaphy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Orange Health Service	298 days	10.9%	55 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	132 days	10.6%	4206 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	86 days	6.9%	12195 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 86 days marks the national median.

Bathurst Base HospitalNSW · about 46 km away200 days
Cowra Health ServiceNSW · about 68 km away89 days
Lachlan Health Service - ParkesNSW · about 88 km away232 days
Mudgee Health ServiceNSW · about 92 km away81 days
Lithgow HospitalNSW · about 98 km away170 days
Blue Mountains HospitalNSW · about 122 km away213 days
Dubbo HospitalNSW · about 128 km away340 days
Young HospitalNSW · about 134 km away224 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 Herniorrhaphy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Orange Health Service (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	76	83	63
2017–18	70	81	67
2018–19	66	85	69
2019–20	89	87	78
2020–21	91	127	92
2021–22	77	113	97
2022–23	78	145	108
2023–24	95	124	87
2024–25	298	132	86

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

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