Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy waiting time at Rockhampton 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: 78 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 45 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 92 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
Rockhampton Hospital	78 days	not published	45 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.

Gladstone HospitalQLD · about 93 km away161 days
Bundaberg Base HospitalQLD · about 250 km away88 days
Mackay Base HospitalQLD · about 284 km away75 days
Hervey Bay HospitalQLD · about 318 km away90 days
Maryborough HospitalQLD · about 326 km away77 days
Kingaroy HospitalQLD · about 376 km away72 days
Gympie HospitalQLD · about 381 km away63 days
Proserpine HospitalQLD · about 385 km away98 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	Rockhampton Hospital (days)	QLD (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	78	54	57
2012–13	44	65	60
2013–14	41	56	56
2014–15	78	47	51
2015–16	79	55	52
2016–17	71	58	52
2017–18	86	61	56
2018–19	94	66	59
2019–20	84	74	67
2020–21	192	64	76
2021–22	89	70	77
2022–23	179	64	82
2023–24	194	64	70
2024–25	78	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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