Inguinal hernia repair waiting time at Wagga Wagga Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for inguinal hernia repair — published by the source as “Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy” — at this public hospital in the Turvey Park 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: 274 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 68 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 23.5%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 174 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 86 days in 2011–12 to 274 days in 2024–25 — up 219% — while the national median rose from 57 days to 73 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Tumut Hospital, about 81 km away, at 73 days. Here, 23.5% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 5.0%.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick “Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy” and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Wagga Wagga Hospital	274 days	23.5%	68 surgeries
Australian Capital Territory (all public hospitals)	133 days	10.3%	252 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	101 days	8.1%	5703 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	45 days	2.6%	4290 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.

Tumut HospitalNSW · about 81 km away73 days
Albury Wodonga Health [Wodonga Campus]VIC · about 121 km away106 days
Young HospitalNSW · about 123 km away191 days
Griffith Base HospitalNSW · about 152 km away39 days
North Canberra HospitalACT · about 158 km away191 days
The Canberra HospitalACT · about 160 km away90 days
Northeast Health WangarattaVIC · about 167 km away46 days
Queanbeyan HospitalNSW · about 172 km away70 days

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

Some of these hospitals are in another state — a public hospital referral can cross the border, so ask your GP what that would mean for you.

How the wait has changed

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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	Wagga Wagga Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	86	72	57
2012–13	187	71	60
2013–14	164	69	56
2014–15	122	70	51
2015–16	124	69	52
2016–17	146	72	52
2017–18	89	75	56
2018–19	87	77	59
2019–20	170	78	67
2020–21	84	92	76
2021–22	66	90	77
2022–23	164	115	82
2023–24	286	97	70
2024–25	274	101	73

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

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