Inguinal hernia repair waiting time at Perth Children's 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 Crawley area of Western Australia, 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: 22 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 73 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 2.7%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 13 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 20 days in 2018–19 to 22 days in 2024–25 — up 10% — while the national median rose from 59 days to 73 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period. Here, 2.7% 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
Perth Children's Hospital	22 days	2.7%	73 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.

Sir Charles Gairdner HospitalWA · about 0 km away72 days
Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street CampusWA · about 5 km away189 days
Osborne Park HospitalWA · about 9 km away99 days
Bentley Health ServiceWA · about 11 km away101 days
Fiona Stanley HospitalWA · about 12 km away140 days
Fremantle Hospital and Health ServiceWA · about 12 km away89 days
St John of God Midland Public HospitalWA · about 20 km away166 days
Joondalup Health Campus (Public)WA · about 26 km away26 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Perth Children's Hospital
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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	Perth Children's Hospital (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	not reported for this period	29	57
2012–13	not reported for this period	34	60
2013–14	not reported for this period	34	56
2014–15	not reported for this period	35	51
2015–16	not reported for this period	35	52
2016–17	not reported for this period	39	52
2017–18	not published	49	56
2018–19	20	50	59
2019–20	19	56	67
2020–21	24	65	76
2021–22	16	68	77
2022–23	20	78	82
2023–24	14	61	70
2024–25	22	79	73

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

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