Inguinal hernia repair waiting time at Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus

Median wait, long waits and volumes for inguinal hernia repair — published by the source as “Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy” — at this public hospital in the Perth 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: 189 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 61 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 18.0%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 162 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 147 days in 2011–12 to 189 days in 2024–25 — up 29% — while the national median rose from 57 days to 73 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Perth Children's Hospital, about 5 km away, at 22 days. Here, 18.0% 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
Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus	189 days	18.0%	61 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.

Perth Children's HospitalWA · about 5 km away22 days
Sir Charles Gairdner HospitalWA · about 5 km away72 days
Bentley Health ServiceWA · about 8 km away101 days
Osborne Park HospitalWA · about 10 km away99 days
Fiona Stanley HospitalWA · about 13 km away140 days
St John of God Midland Public HospitalWA · about 15 km away166 days
Fremantle Hospital and Health ServiceWA · about 16 km away89 days
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial HospitalWA · about 25 km away49 days

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

How the wait has changed

Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus
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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	Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	147	29	57
2012–13	78	34	60
2013–14	44	34	56
2014–15	71	35	51
2015–16	43	35	52
2016–17	36	39	52
2017–18	64	49	56
2018–19	63	50	59
2019–20	95	56	67
2020–21	96	65	76
2021–22	122	68	77
2022–23	119	78	82
2023–24	173	61	70
2024–25	189	79	73

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

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