Hydrocele - repair of waiting time at St Vincent's On the Park
The median wait for hydrocele - repair of at this public hospital in the East Melbourne area of Victoria was 17 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
- 17 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 10 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 2 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has fallen from 129 days in 2022–23 to 17 days in 2024–25 — down 87% — while the national median fell from 138 days to 95 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Vincent's On the Park | 17 days | not published | 10 surgeries |
| Victoria (all public hospitals) | 70 days | 5.4% | 261 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 95 days | 9.8% | 1477 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- St Vincent's On the Park
- VIC
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | St Vincent's On the Park (days) | VIC (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | not reported for this period | 53 | 75 |
| 2017–18 | not reported for this period | 54 | 70 |
| 2018–19 | not reported for this period | 53 | 70 |
| 2019–20 | not reported for this period | 72 | 87 |
| 2020–21 | not reported for this period | 123 | 113 |
| 2021–22 | not reported for this period | 134 | 121 |
| 2022–23 | 129 | 189 | 138 |
| 2023–24 | not published | 83 | 90 |
| 2024–25 | 17 | 70 | 95 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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