--- title: "Hernia repair near Box Hill" description: "Public hospitals in or near Box Hill ranked by median wait for hernia repair, 2024–25. Shortest wait: 35 days." url: "https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/hernia-repair/near/box-hill/" --- # Hernia repair near Box Hill Near Box Hill, [Blackburn Public Surgical Centre](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/blackburn-public-surgical-centre/hernia-repair/), and [Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital \[Heidelberg West\]](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/heidelberg-repatriation-hospital-heidelberg-west/hernia-repair/) just outside the area, had the shortest median wait for hernia repair in 2024–25: **35 days** (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026. 5 public hospitals are ranked here by the median wait the source published for hernia repair, shortest first, and by nothing else. Every hospital listed is within 120 km of every other. 2 hospitals sit just outside this area, within about 25 km of one of its hospitals, and are included because a referral can cross the line. 2 hospitals have no current published median. They are listed last and never ranked; a figure the source withheld reads "not published". The source publishes this surgery as "Herniorrhaphy". ## Hospitals in or near Box Hill Herniorrhaphy at public hospitals in or near Box Hill, 2024–25, by median wait. Hospitals with the same median share a rank. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28. | Rank | Hospital | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Where | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | [Blackburn Public Surgical Centre](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/blackburn-public-surgical-centre/hernia-repair/) | 35 days | 0.6% | Blackburn South, VIC. In this area. | | 1 | [Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital \[Heidelberg West\]](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/heidelberg-repatriation-hospital-heidelberg-west/hernia-repair/) | 35 days | 0.0% | Bellfield, VIC. Outside this area, about 9 km from Box Hill Hospital. | | 3 | [Austin Hospital \[Heidelberg\]](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/austin-hospital-heidelberg/hernia-repair/) | 45 days | 4.3% | Eaglemont, VIC. Outside this area, about 8 km from Box Hill Hospital. | | 4 | [Angliss Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/angliss-hospital/hernia-repair/) | 76 days | 3.2% | Upper Ferntree Gully, VIC. In this area. | | 5 | [Box Hill Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/box-hill-hospital/hernia-repair/) | 77 days | 6.3% | Box Hill, VIC. In this area. | | unranked | [Maroondah Hospital \[East Ringwood\]](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/maroondah-hospital-east-ringwood/hernia-repair/) | not published | not published | Ringwood East, VIC. In this area. | | unranked | [Yarra Ranges Health](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/yarra-ranges-health/hernia-repair/) | not published | not published | Lilydale, VIC. In this area. | This area covers Angliss Hospital, Blackburn Public Surgical Centre, Box Hill Hospital, Maroondah Hospital \[East Ringwood\] and Yarra Ranges Health: the hospitals of the source's Local Hospital Network "Eastern Health (Vic)" within 25 km of Box Hill Hospital. 1 other hospital of the network is farther away and not part of this area. Distances are straight lines between hospital locations, rounded to the nearest kilometre; they are not travel distances. A shorter median does not mean a hospital will see you sooner: your urgency category and your specialist decide that. **Cite this page** > Near Box Hill, Blackburn Public Surgical Centre, and Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital \[Heidelberg West\] just outside the area, had the shortest median wait for hernia repair in 2024–25: 35 days (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). ### Copy-ready citation ``` Surgery Waits, "Hernia repair near Box Hill: hospital waits", 2024–25 data released 28 May 2026, https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/hernia-repair/near/box-hill/, accessed 28 May 2026. ``` Attribution: Surgery Waits ([https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/hernia-repair/near/box-hill/](https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/hernia-repair/near/box-hill/)), 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. See [every Victoria hospital for hernia repair](https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/hernia-repair/vic/), or every hospital in [Eastern Health](https://surgerywaits.au/health-service/eastern-health/). ## Before you use these figures Surgery Waits is not medical advice. It republishes official statistics about waiting times that have already happened, and it does not recommend any hospital, doctor or treatment. Your general practitioner (GP) and your treating specialist are the right people to help you decide what is appropriate for you. **In an emergency call 000.** Waiting-time figures: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare MyHospitals, licensed under [CC BY 3.0 AU](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/). Quarterly state figures: Queensland Health. Suburb and locality data: Australian Bureau of Statistics. 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