Repair of obstructing hiatus hernia waiting times

Public hospital waiting times for Repair of obstructing hiatus hernia, nationally and by state.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026

Across Australia, the median wait for Repair of obstructing hiatus hernia in public hospitals was 88 days in 2024–25, from 1170 surgeries. 9.2% of people waited more than 365 days. 41 public hospitals published a median wait for it.

State by state

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 88 days marks the national median.

Victoria57 days
Queensland83 days
Western Australia95 days
New South Wales104 days
Australian Capital Territorynot published
Northern Territorynot published
South Australianot published

Repair of obstructing hiatus hernia in public hospitals by state and territory, 2024–25. States with the same median share a rank. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Rank	State or territory	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
1	Victoria	57 days	2.0%	248 surgeries
2	Queensland	83 days	2.7%	182 surgeries
3	Western Australia	95 days	10.2%	118 surgeries
4	New South Wales	104 days	14.1%	511 surgeries
unranked	Australian Capital Territory	not published	not published	25 surgeries
unranked	Northern Territory	not published	not published	not published
unranked	South Australia	not published	not published	85 surgeries

How the wait has changed

Australia
VIC
QLD
WA

View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Repair of obstructing hiatus hernia, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Australia (days)	VIC (days)	QLD (days)	WA (days)
2016–17	66	not published	not published	not published
2017–18	79	not published	not published	not published
2018–19	78	not published	not published	not published
2019–20	81	not published	not published	not published
2020–21	91	not published	62	106
2021–22	98	not published	77	not published
2022–23	114	not published	83	not published
2023–24	89	66	75	116
2024–25	88	57	83	95

What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

The source calls this collection “elective surgery”. This site calls it planned surgery, because the surgery is planned in advance rather than optional — the methodology explains the wording.