Hernia repair waiting time at Shellharbour Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for hernia repair — published by the source as “Herniorrhaphy” — at this public hospital in the Shellharbour City Centre 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: 140 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 89 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 3.4%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 123 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 91 days in 2016–17 to 140 days in 2024–25 — up 54% — while the national median rose from 63 days to 86 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Wollongong Hospital, about 15 km away, at 125 days. Here, 3.4% 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
Shellharbour Hospital	140 days	3.4%	89 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.

Wollongong HospitalNSW · about 15 km away125 days
Bowral HospitalNSW · about 39 km away77 days
Shoalhaven HospitalNSW · about 41 km away312 days
Campbelltown HospitalNSW · about 54 km away349 days
Sutherland HospitalNSW · about 63 km away252 days
St George Hospital NSWNSW · about 71 km away156 days
Bankstown Lidcombe HospitalNSW · about 72 km away112 days
Liverpool HospitalNSW · about 72 km away351 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	Shellharbour Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	91	83	63
2017–18	126	81	67
2018–19	131	85	69
2019–20	95	87	78
2020–21	273	127	92
2021–22	307	113	97
2022–23	278	145	108
2023–24	180	124	87
2024–25	140	132	86

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

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