Surgery Waits

Hernia repair waiting time at Rockhampton Hospital

The median wait for hernia repair — published by the source as "Herniorrhaphy" — at this public hospital in the Wandal area of Queensland was 194 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
194 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
50 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
14.0%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 135 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 119 days in 2016–17 to 194 days in 2024–25 — up 63% — while the national median rose from 63 days to 86 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Gladstone Hospital, about 93 km away, at 183 days. Here, 14.0% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 6.9%.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "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 Herniorrhaphy, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Rockhampton Hospital194 days14.0%50 surgeries
Queensland (all public hospitals)87 days4.3%2476 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)86 days6.9%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.

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 500 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for herniorrhaphy by financial year at Rockhampton Hospital, compared with Queensland and Australiadays01002003004002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Rockhampton Hospital 194QLD 87Australia 86
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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 periodRockhampton Hospital (days)QLD (days)Australia (days)
2016–171196963
2017–181857567
2018–19907769
2019–201868578
2020–211137892
2021–22878597
2022–2320080108
2023–243338087
2024–251948786

Queensland's quarterly figures for general surgery

These are not figures for herniorrhaphy. Queensland reports by surgical specialty, not by procedure. A specialty covers many different operations, so a specialty figure is never a figure for any one of them.

Queensland Health publishes its own figures every three months. They count differently from the national figures above and are never combined with them. This quarter ends after the national reporting period, so it is the more recent of the two.

Covers July to September 2025, published by Queensland Health on 28 October 2025. Reported as Rockhampton.

Patients treated
200 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Treated within the recommended time
62.0%July to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Still waiting at the end of the quarter
605 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Waiting longer than recommended
253 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025

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

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