Inguinal hernia repair waiting time at Angliss Hospital

The median wait for inguinal hernia repair — published by the source as "Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy" — at this public hospital in the Upper Ferntree Gully area of Victoria was 79 days in 2024–25.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026

These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.

Median wait: 79 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 152 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 2.0%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 94 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 61 days in 2011–12 to 79 days in 2024–25 — up 30% — while the national median rose from 57 days to 73 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Dandenong Hospital, about 12 km away, at 58 days. Here, 2.0% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 5.0%.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Angliss Hospital	79 days	2.0%	152 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	45 days	2.6%	4290 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.

Maroondah Hospital [East Ringwood]VIC · about 11 km away84 days
Dandenong HospitalVIC · about 12 km away58 days
Monash Medical Centre [Clayton]VIC · about 14 km away21 days
Blackburn Public Surgical CentreVIC · about 16 km away32 days
Casey HospitalVIC · about 17 km away49 days
Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 20 km away56 days
Sandringham HospitalVIC · about 27 km away21 days
Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]VIC · about 27 km away30 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	Angliss Hospital (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	61	60	57
2012–13	77	71	60
2013–14	39	57	56
2014–15	40	42	51
2015–16	31	40	52
2016–17	42	38	52
2017–18	45	40	56
2018–19	57	39	59
2019–20	50	43	67
2020–21	77	71	76
2021–22	124	81	77
2022–23	195	81	82
2023–24	96	47	70
2024–25	79	45	73

Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.

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