Hernia repair — NHS waiting times by hospital

Across NHS hospitals in England, the median wait for General Surgery Service — the specialty most hernia repair cases are routed to — is 10 weeks, with 6 in 10 patients seen within the 18-week NHS Constitution target. Important context: hernia repair is a common day-case operation and typically runs faster than the General Surgery specialty average — the wait below is the outpatient clinic wait, not the operation itself.