Inguinal hernia repair waiting time at Nepean Hospital

The median wait for inguinal hernia repair — published by the source as "Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy" — at this public hospital in the Cambridge Park area of New South Wales was 317 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: 317 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 93 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 24.7%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 182 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 202 days in 2011–12 to 317 days in 2024–25 — up 57% — while the national median rose from 57 days to 73 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Mount Druitt Hospital, about 11 km away, at 314 days. Here, 24.7% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 5.0%.

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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
Nepean Hospital	317 days	24.7%	93 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	101 days	8.1%	5703 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.

Mount Druitt HospitalNSW · about 11 km away314 days
Blacktown HospitalNSW · about 19 km away148 days
Hawkesbury HospitalNSW · about 19 km away173 days
Fairfield HospitalNSW · about 21 km away323 days
Westmead HospitalNSW · about 26 km away107 days
The Children's Hospital at WestmeadNSW · about 26 km away9 days
Liverpool HospitalNSW · about 27 km away183 days
Auburn HospitalNSW · about 32 km away71 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 Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Nepean Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	202	72	57
2012–13	286	71	60
2013–14	323	69	56
2014–15	301	70	51
2015–16	267	69	52
2016–17	231	72	52
2017–18	228	75	56
2018–19	195	77	59
2019–20	115	78	67
2020–21	308	92	76
2021–22	175	90	77
2022–23	265	115	82
2023–24	327	97	70
2024–25	317	101	73

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

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