Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy waiting time at Lithgow 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: 84 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 18 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 101 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
Lithgow Hospital	84 days	not published	18 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.

Blue Mountains HospitalNSW · about 29 km away84 days
Bathurst Base HospitalNSW · about 53 km away129 days
Nepean HospitalNSW · about 61 km away317 days
Hawkesbury HospitalNSW · about 65 km away173 days
Mount Druitt HospitalNSW · about 71 km away314 days
Blacktown HospitalNSW · about 79 km away148 days
Fairfield HospitalNSW · about 82 km away323 days
Westmead HospitalNSW · about 87 km away107 days

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

How the wait has changed

Lithgow Hospital
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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	Lithgow Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	62	72	57
2012–13	72	71	60
2013–14	78	69	56
2014–15	73	70	51
2015–16	78	69	52
2016–17	62	72	52
2017–18	120	75	56
2018–19	172	77	59
2019–20	342	78	67
2020–21	105	92	76
2021–22	239	90	77
2022–23	93	115	82
2023–24	87	97	70
2024–25	84	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.

All surgery at Lithgow Hospital · Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy across Australia · Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy in New South Wales