Hernia repair waiting time at Shoalhaven Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for hernia repair — published by the source as “Herniorrhaphy” — at this public hospital in the West Nowra 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: 312 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 84 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 28.6%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 156 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 318 days in 2016–17 to 312 days in 2024–25 — down 2% — while the national median rose from 63 days to 86 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Shellharbour Hospital, about 41 km away, at 140 days. Here, 28.6% 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
Shoalhaven Hospital	312 days	28.6%	84 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.

Shellharbour HospitalNSW · about 41 km away140 days
Bowral HospitalNSW · about 45 km away77 days
Wollongong HospitalNSW · about 56 km away125 days
Goulburn Base HospitalNSW · about 82 km away178 days
Campbelltown HospitalNSW · about 90 km away349 days
Sutherland HospitalNSW · about 104 km away252 days
Liverpool HospitalNSW · about 110 km away351 days
Bankstown Lidcombe HospitalNSW · about 111 km away112 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	Shoalhaven Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	318	83	63
2017–18	287	81	67
2018–19	309	85	69
2019–20	346	87	78
2020–21	418	127	92
2021–22	327	113	97
2022–23	320	145	108
2023–24	177	124	87
2024–25	312	132	86

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

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