Kidney drainage blockage repair waiting time at Box Hill Hospital
Half of patients at Box Hill Hospital waited 25 days or less for kidney drainage blockage repair in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Pyeloplasty/correction of ureteropelvic junction". This public hospital is in the Box Hill area of Victoria.
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
- 25 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 16 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 22 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 3 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has fallen from 39 days in 2020–21 to 25 days in 2024–25 — down 36% — while the national median stayed at 41 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.
Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Pyeloplasty/correction of ureteropelvic junction" and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.
How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box Hill Hospital | 25 days | not published | 16 surgeries |
| Victoria (all public hospitals) | 30 days | 6.3% | 224 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 41 days | 4.7% | 598 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 41 days marks the national median.
St Vincent's On the Park, VIC · about 12 km away: 61 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne], VIC · about 13 km away: 28 days
Monash Medical Centre [Clayton], VIC · about 13 km away: 27 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus], VIC · about 14 km away: 54 days
Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville], VIC · about 15 km away: 29 days
Casey Hospital, VIC · about 33 km away: 101 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Box Hill Hospital
- VIC
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Box Hill Hospital (days) | VIC (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | not published | 24 | 33 |
| 2017–18 | not published | 27 | 42 |
| 2018–19 | not published | 24 | 38 |
| 2019–20 | not published | 25 | 41 |
| 2020–21 | 39 | 28 | 41 |
| 2021–22 | not published | 25 | 32 |
| 2022–23 | not published | 25 | 39 |
| 2023–24 | 16 | 27 | 35 |
| 2024–25 | 25 | 30 | 41 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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