Surgery Waits

Hernia repair waiting time at Monash Medical Centre [Clayton]

The median wait for hernia repair — published by the source as "Herniorrhaphy" — at this public hospital in the Springvale area of Victoria was 78 days in 2024–25.

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

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

Median wait
78 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
85 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
0.0%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 169 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 64 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 74 days in 2016–17 to 78 days in 2024–25 — up 5% — while the national median rose from 63 days to 86 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Blackburn Public Surgical Centre, about 10 km away, at 35 days. Here, 0.0% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 6.9%.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Herniorrhaphy, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Monash Medical Centre [Clayton]78 days0.0%85 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)56 days3.6%3381 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)86 days6.9%12195 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 86 days marks the national median.

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for herniorrhaphy by financial year at Monash Medical Centre [Clayton], compared with Victoria and Australiadays0631251882502016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Monash Medical Centre [Clayton] 78VIC 56Australia 86
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Herniorrhaphy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodMonash Medical Centre [Clayton] (days)VIC (days)Australia (days)
2016–17744863
2017–18664967
2018–19644969
2019–20745478
2020–2111510692
2021–228611097
2022–23201129108
2023–24586987
2024–25785686

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

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