Hernia repair waiting time at Flinders Medical Centre

The median wait for hernia repair — published by the source as "Herniorrhaphy" — at this public hospital in the Bedford Park area of South Australia was 71 days in 2024–25.

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

These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.

Median wait: 71 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 50 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 2.0%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 49 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 57 days in 2016–17 to 71 days in 2024–25 — up 25% — while the national median rose from 63 days to 86 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period. Here, 2.0% 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
Flinders Medical Centre	71 days	2.0%	50 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 11 km away144 days
Women's and Children's HospitalSA · about 13 km away321 days
Noarlunga HospitalSA · about 15 km away78 days
The Queen Elizabeth HospitalSA · about 16 km away110 days
Modbury HospitalSA · about 24 km away90 days
Lyell McEwin HospitalSA · about 32 km away120 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	Flinders Medical Centre (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	57	45	63
2017–18	37	54	67
2018–19	49	51	69
2019–20	52	78	78
2020–21	92	97	92
2021–22	82	105	97
2022–23	239	97	108
2023–24	99	95	87
2024–25	71	92	86

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

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