Surgery Waits

Hydrocele - repair of waiting time at Perth Children's Hospital

The median wait for hydrocele - repair of at this public hospital in the Crawley area of Western Australia was 88 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
88 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
34 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
not published2024–25 · released 28 May 2026 — Reported data did not meet the criteria to calculate this indicator.

Half the people who had this surgery here waited less than the median, and half waited longer. Of the 52 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 20 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 91 days in 2018–19 to 88 days in 2024–25 — down 3% — while the national median rose from 70 days to 95 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Hydrocele - repair of, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Perth Children's Hospital88 daysnot published34 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)not publishednot published88 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)95 days9.8%1477 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

No other public hospital within 1,000 km published a figure for this surgery in this period.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for hydrocele - repair of by financial year at Perth Children's Hospital, compared with Western Australia and Australiadays038751131502016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Perth Children's Hospital 88WA 85Australia 95
  • Perth Children's Hospital
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Hydrocele - repair of, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodPerth Children's Hospital (days)WA (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not reported for this period7275
2017–18not published7670
2018–19917170
2019–20735987
2020–219593113
2021–2210291121
2022–23132126138
2023–241438590
2024–2588not published95

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