Repair of obstructing hiatus hernia waiting time at Port Macquarie Base Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Repair of obstructing hiatus hernia 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: 284 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 15 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 41 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 36 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 Repair of obstructing hiatus hernia, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Port Macquarie Base Hospital	284 days	not published	15 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	104 days	14.1%	511 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	88 days	9.2%	1170 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 88 days marks the national median.

Coffs Harbour HospitalNSW · about 128 km away399 days
John Hunter HospitalNSW · about 198 km away267 days
Belmont HospitalNSW · about 210 km away365 days
Gosford HospitalNSW · about 262 km away117 days
Lismore Base HospitalNSW · about 297 km away301 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst]NSW · about 311 km away79 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 313 km away41 days
Royal Prince Alfred HospitalNSW · about 314 km away57 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 500 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Port Macquarie Base Hospital
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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Repair of obstructing hiatus hernia, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Port Macquarie Base Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	91	80	66
2017–18	65	82	79
2018–19	65	79	78
2019–20	51	83	81
2020–21	85	118	91
2021–22	61	126	98
2022–23	160	131	114
2023–24	109	97	89
2024–25	284	104	88

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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