Inguinal hernia repair waiting time at Blackburn Public Surgical Centre

The median wait for inguinal hernia repair — published by the source as "Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy" — at this public hospital in the Blackburn South area of Victoria was 32 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: 32 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 260 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 0.4%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 24 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 127 days in 2022–23 to 32 days in 2024–25 — down 75% — while the national median fell from 82 days to 73 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Monash Medical Centre [Clayton], about 10 km away, at 21 days. Here, 0.4% 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
Blackburn Public Surgical Centre	32 days	0.4%	260 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.

Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 4 km away56 days
Maroondah Hospital [East Ringwood]VIC · about 9 km away84 days
Monash Medical Centre [Clayton]VIC · about 10 km away21 days
Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]VIC · about 12 km away30 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 13 km away48 days
The AlfredVIC · about 15 km away49 days
Angliss HospitalVIC · about 16 km away79 days
Dandenong HospitalVIC · about 17 km away58 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	Blackburn Public Surgical Centre (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	not reported for this period	60	57
2012–13	not reported for this period	71	60
2013–14	not reported for this period	57	56
2014–15	not reported for this period	42	51
2015–16	not reported for this period	40	52
2016–17	not reported for this period	38	52
2017–18	not reported for this period	40	56
2018–19	not reported for this period	39	59
2019–20	not reported for this period	43	67
2020–21	not reported for this period	71	76
2021–22	not reported for this period	81	77
2022–23	127	81	82
2023–24	33	47	70
2024–25	32	45	73

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

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