Hernia repair waiting time at Sydney Children's Hospital

The median wait for hernia repair — published by the source as "Herniorrhaphy" — at this public hospital in the Randwick area of New South Wales was 133 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: 133 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 12 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 169 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 121 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 215 days in 2016–17 to 133 days in 2024–25 — down 38% — while the national median rose from 63 days to 86 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Prince of Wales Hospital, about 0 km away, at 104 days.

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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
Sydney Children's Hospital	133 days	not published	12 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	132 days	10.6%	4206 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.

Prince of Wales HospitalNSW · about 0 km away104 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst]NSW · about 4 km away69 days
Royal Prince Alfred HospitalNSW · about 6 km away56 days
St George Hospital NSWNSW · about 11 km away156 days
Royal North Shore HospitalNSW · about 12 km away92 days
Canterbury HospitalNSW · about 13 km away91 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 16 km away47 days
Sutherland HospitalNSW · about 18 km away252 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	Sydney Children's Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	215	83	63
2017–18	82	81	67
2018–19	168	85	69
2019–20	97	87	78
2020–21	250	127	92
2021–22	167	113	97
2022–23	316	145	108
2023–24	202	124	87
2024–25	133	132	86

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

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