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title: "Hernia repair near Clayton"
description: "Public hospitals in or near Clayton ranked by median wait for hernia repair, 2024–25. Shortest wait: 35 days."
url: "https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/hernia-repair/near/clayton/"
---

# Hernia repair near Clayton

Near Clayton, [Blackburn Public Surgical Centre](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/blackburn-public-surgical-centre/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. The source publishes this surgery as "Herniorrhaphy".

## Hospitals in or near Clayton

Herniorrhaphy at public hospitals in or near Clayton, 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. Outside this area, about 10 km from Monash Medical Centre \[Clayton\]. |
| 2 | [Casey Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/casey-hospital/hernia-repair/) | 68 days | 2.1% | Berwick, VIC. In this area. |
| 3 | [Angliss Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/angliss-hospital/hernia-repair/) | 76 days | 3.2% | Upper Ferntree Gully, VIC. Outside this area, about 12 km from Dandenong Hospital. |
| 4 | [Monash Medical Centre \[Clayton\]](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/monash-medical-centre-clayton/hernia-repair/) | 78 days | 0.0% | Clayton, VIC. In this area. |
| 5 | [Dandenong Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/dandenong-hospital/hernia-repair/) | 80 days | 3.1% | Dandenong, VIC. In this area. |

This area covers Casey Hospital, Cranbourne Integrated Care Centre, Dandenong Hospital, Monash Medical Centre \[Clayton\], Monash Medical Centre \[Moorabbin\], Sandringham Monash and Victorian Heart Hospital: the hospitals of the source's Local Hospital Network "Monash Health". 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.

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> Near Clayton, Blackburn Public Surgical Centre, just outside the area, had the shortest median wait for hernia repair in 2024–25: 35 days (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

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Surgery Waits, "Hernia repair near Clayton: hospital waits", 2024–25 data released 28 May 2026, https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/hernia-repair/near/clayton/, accessed 28 May 2026.
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Attribution: Surgery Waits ([https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/hernia-repair/near/clayton/](https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/hernia-repair/near/clayton/)), 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 [Monash Health](https://surgerywaits.au/health-service/monash-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. Both licensed under [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Surgery Waits is not connected with any of these organisations.

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