Blackburn Public Surgical Centre surgery waiting times
In 2024–25, this public hospital in the Blackburn South area of Victoria published median waits from 1 day for curettage and evacuation of uterus to 690 days for septoplasty.
Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released
Blackburn Public Surgical Centre is a public hospital in the Blackburn South area of Victoria. It is part of Eastern Health. It reported 43 surgery types to the national planned-surgery collection for 2024–25. 4 surgery types were last reported in an earlier period; they are listed below, with the period the source last carried them.
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Waiting times by surgery
Shortest median wait first. A surgery the source did not publish a figure for is listed after those, and a surgery it did not report at all this period is listed last. Neither is ranked, and neither shows an older figure in place of a current one.
| Surgery | Median wait | Surgeries | Waited more than 365 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| Curettage and evacuation of uterus | 1 day | 194 surgeries | 0.0% |
| Hysteroscopy, dilatation and curettage | 22 days | 645 surgeries | 0.0% |
| Anal fissure - repair of | 23 days | 14 surgeries | not published |
| Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic) | 24 days | 224 surgeries | 0.9% |
| Toenail surgery | 29 days | 15 surgeries | not published |
| Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy | 32 days | 260 surgeries | 0.4% |
| Herniorrhaphy | 35 days | 180 surgeries | 0.6% |
| Skin lesion - excision of | 47 days | 165 surgeries | 0.0% |
| Pilonidal sinus surgery | 48 days | 27 surgeries | not published |
| Haemorrhoidectomy | 49 days | 77 surgeries | 0.0% |
| Salpingo-oophorectomy/oophorectomy/ovarian cystectomy | 50 days | 40 surgeries | not published |
| Laparoscopy | 53 days | 151 surgeries | 0.0% |
| Carpal tunnel release | 60 days | 105 surgeries | 0.0% |
| Hysterectomy (abdominal/vaginal/laparoscopic) | 80 days | 62 surgeries | 0.0% |
| Breast reduction | 87 days | 10 surgeries | not published |
| Tonsillectomy (with or without adenoidectomy) | 133 days | 26 surgeries | not published |
| Varicose veins treatment | 185 days | 36 surgeries | not published |
| Septoplasty | 690 days | 94 surgeries | 78.7% |
| Anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction | not published | 5 surgeries | not published |
| Arthroscopy | not published | not published | not published |
| Bartholin's abscess drainage | not published | not published | not published |
| Blepharoplasty | not published | 5 surgeries | not published |
| Breast lump - excision and/or biopsy | not published | not published | not published |
| Breast prosthesis - removal of | not published | not published | not published |
| Breast reconstruction | not published | not published | not published |
| Circumcision | not published | not published | not published |
| Dupytren's contracture release | not published | not published | not published |
| Ectropion - correction of | not published | not published | not published |
| Endometrial ablation | not published | not published | not published |
| Epididymal cyst - removal of | not published | not published | not published |
| Female sterilisation | not published | not published | not published |
| Functional endoscopic sinus surgery | not published | 9 surgeries | not published |
| Ganglion - excision of | not published | 8 surgeries | not published |
| Hydrocele - repair of | not published | not published | not published |
| Mastectomy | not published | 6 surgeries | not published |
| Myomectomy | not published | not published | not published |
| Myringotomy | not published | not published | not published |
| Pressure equalising tubes (grommets) - insertion of | not published | not published | not published |
| Pterygium - excision of | not published | not published | not published |
| Ptosis - repair of | not published | not published | not published |
| Trigger finger/thumb release | not published | not published | not published |
| Turbinectomy | not published | not published | not published |
| Vaginal repair - anterior/posterior | not published | 5 surgeries | not published |
| Axillary node dissection last reported 2022–23 | not reported for this period | not reported for this period | not reported for this period |
| Large loop excision of the transformation zone cervix (LLETZ) last reported 2023–24 | not reported for this period | not reported for this period | not reported for this period |
| Pyogenic granuloma - removal of last reported 2022–23 | not reported for this period | not reported for this period | not reported for this period |
| Repair of obstructing hiatus hernia last reported 2023–24 | not reported for this period | not reported for this period | not reported for this period |
Urgency categories
Urgency figures cover all planned surgery at the hospital, not one procedure. They are never combined with the procedure figures. Your treating specialist assigns your urgency category — it is not something you choose. What the categories mean, and how every hospital compares.
| Urgency category | Median wait | Treated within the recommended time | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Urgent | 6 days | 100% | 494 surgeries |
| Semi-urgent | 36 days | 85% | 1758 surgeries |
| Non-urgent | 94 days | 86% | 593 surgeries |
Cite this page
In 2024–25, Blackburn Public Surgical Centre published median planned-surgery waits from 1 day for curettage and evacuation of uterus to 690 days for septoplasty.
Copy-ready citation
SurgeryWaits, "Blackburn Public Surgical Centre waiting list", 2024–25 data released 28 May 2026, https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/blackburn-public-surgical-centre/, accessed 28 May 2026.Attribution: SurgeryWaits (https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/blackburn-public-surgical-centre/), from Australian Institute of Health and Welfare MyHospitals data, CC BY 3.0 AU. Reference period 2024–25, released 28 May 2026.
What is not here
Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.