Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy waiting time at Royal North Shore 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: 55 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 5.5%2024–25 · released 28 May 2026

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
Royal North Shore Hospital	98 days	5.5%	55 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.

St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst]NSW · about 7 km away62 days
Royal Prince Alfred HospitalNSW · about 8 km away43 days
Northern Beaches HospitalNSW · about 9 km away78 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 9 km away56 days
Ryde HospitalNSW · about 10 km away50 days
Sydney Children's HospitalNSW · about 12 km away7 days
Prince of Wales HospitalNSW · about 12 km away95 days
Canterbury HospitalNSW · about 14 km away91 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	Royal North Shore Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	106	72	57
2012–13	91	71	60
2013–14	95	69	56
2014–15	68	70	51
2015–16	62	69	52
2016–17	65	72	52
2017–18	64	75	56
2018–19	65	77	59
2019–20	72	78	67
2020–21	117	92	76
2021–22	132	90	77
2022–23	99	115	82
2023–24	92	97	70
2024–25	98	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 Royal North Shore Hospital · Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy across Australia · Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy in New South Wales