Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy waiting time at Mount Isa Base 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: 20 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 13 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 8 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
Mount Isa Base Hospital	20 days	not published	13 surgeries
Northern Territory (all public hospitals)	43 days	0.8%	118 surgeries
Queensland (all public hospitals)	70 days	3.0%	3303 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.

Alice Springs HospitalNT · about 666 km away49 days
Atherton HospitalQLD · about 738 km away70 days
Mareeba HospitalQLD · about 750 km away294 days
Innisfail HospitalQLD · about 774 km away220 days
Townsville University HospitalQLD · about 775 km away46 days
Cairns HospitalQLD · about 785 km away89 days
Proserpine HospitalQLD · about 947 km away98 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 1000 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

Some of these hospitals are in another state. Public hospital referrals can cross state borders. Ask your general practitioner (GP) what that would mean for you — see can my GP refer me to a different hospital?

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	Mount Isa Base Hospital (days)	QLD (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	34	54	57
2012–13	33	65	60
2013–14	45	56	56
2014–15	48	47	51
2015–16	82	55	52
2016–17	31	58	52
2017–18	39	61	56
2018–19	61	66	59
2019–20	38	74	67
2020–21	not published	64	76
2021–22	26	70	77
2022–23	39	64	82
2023–24	33	64	70
2024–25	20	70	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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