Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy waiting time at Cessnock Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy at this public hospital, with the nearest alternatives that published a figure.

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

Median wait: 244 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 19 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 170 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Cessnock Hospital	244 days	not published	19 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.

Maitland HospitalNSW · about 22 km away301 days
Singleton HospitalNSW · about 33 km away30 days
John Hunter HospitalNSW · about 34 km away43 days
Belmont HospitalNSW · about 36 km away87 days
Calvary Mater NewcastleNSW · about 36 km away66 days
Wyong HospitalNSW · about 50 km away296 days
Gosford HospitalNSW · about 66 km away273 days
Muswellbrook HospitalNSW · about 75 km away57 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	Cessnock Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	47	72	57
2012–13	not published	71	60
2013–14	not published	69	56
2014–15	72	70	51
2015–16	59	69	52
2016–17	76	72	52
2017–18	72	75	56
2018–19	132	77	59
2019–20	283	78	67
2020–21	112	92	76
2021–22	53	90	77
2022–23	73	115	82
2023–24	90	97	70
2024–25	244	101	73

What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

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