Surgery Waits

Hydrocele - repair of waiting time at Yarra Ranges Health

The median wait for hydrocele - repair of at this public hospital in the Lilydale area of Victoria 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
19 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 122 days in 2021–22 to 88 days in 2024–25 — down 28% — while the national median fell from 121 days to 95 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Box Hill Hospital, about 21 km away, at 58 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
Yarra Ranges Health88 daysnot published19 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)70 days5.4%261 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)95 days9.8%1477 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 95 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 hydrocele - repair of by financial year at Yarra Ranges Health, compared with Victoria and Australiadays0501001502002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Yarra Ranges Health 88VIC 70Australia 95
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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 periodYarra Ranges Health (days)VIC (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not reported for this period5375
2017–18not reported for this period5470
2018–19not reported for this period5370
2019–20not reported for this period7287
2020–21not reported for this period123113
2021–22122134121
2022–2398189138
2023–24498390
2024–25887095

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

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