Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy waiting time at Proserpine 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: 98 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 25 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 128 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
Proserpine Hospital	98 days	not published	25 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.

Mackay Base HospitalQLD · about 102 km away75 days
Townsville University HospitalQLD · about 225 km away46 days
Rockhampton HospitalQLD · about 385 km away78 days
Innisfail HospitalQLD · about 418 km away220 days
Gladstone HospitalQLD · about 472 km away161 days
Atherton HospitalQLD · about 477 km away70 days
Cairns HospitalQLD · about 488 km away89 days

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

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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	Proserpine Hospital (days)	QLD (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	not reported for this period	54	57
2012–13	not reported for this period	65	60
2013–14	not reported for this period	56	56
2014–15	not reported for this period	47	51
2015–16	31	55	52
2016–17	32	58	52
2017–18	75	61	56
2018–19	57	66	59
2019–20	45	74	67
2020–21	56	64	76
2021–22	67	70	77
2022–23	116	64	82
2023–24	84	64	70
2024–25	98	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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