Hernia repair waiting time at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for hernia repair — published by the source as “Herniorrhaphy” — at this public hospital in the Woodville South area of South 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: 110 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 48 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 169 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 103 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 35 days in 2016–17 to 110 days in 2024–25 — up 214% — while the national median rose from 63 days to 86 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Modbury Hospital, about 15 km away, at 90 days.

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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
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital	110 days	not published	48 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)	92 days	11.3%	398 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.

Royal Adelaide HospitalSA · about 6 km away144 days
Women's and Children's HospitalSA · about 7 km away321 days
Modbury HospitalSA · about 15 km away90 days
Flinders Medical CentreSA · about 16 km away71 days
Lyell McEwin HospitalSA · about 19 km away120 days
Noarlunga HospitalSA · about 29 km away78 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	The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	35	45	63
2017–18	57	54	67
2018–19	45	51	69
2019–20	70	78	78
2020–21	112	97	92
2021–22	153	105	97
2022–23	124	97	108
2023–24	121	95	87
2024–25	110	92	86

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

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