Surgery Waits

Inguinal hernia repair waiting time at Macksville District Hospital

The median wait for inguinal hernia repair — published by the source as "Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy" — at this public hospital in the Macksville area of New South Wales was 335 days in 2024–25.

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

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

Median wait
335 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
43 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 186 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 186 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 65 days in 2011–12 to 335 days in 2024–25 — up 415% — while the national median rose from 57 days to 73 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Kempsey District Hospital, about 41 km away, at 88 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Macksville District Hospital335 daysnot published43 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)101 days8.1%5703 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)73 days5.0%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.

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

How the wait has changed

Median wait for inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy by financial year at Macksville District Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays01002003004002011–122014–152017–182020–212023–242024–25Macksville District Hospital 335NSW 101Australia 73
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Median wait in days for Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodMacksville District Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2011–12657257
2012–13957160
2013–14536956
2014–15767051
2015–162156952
2016–171657252
2017–181897556
2018–191627759
2019–201727867
2020–212869276
2021–222089077
2022–2321611582
2023–243159770
2024–2533510173

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

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