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Inguinal hernia repair waiting times in Victoria

The median wait for inguinal hernia repair in Victoria public hospitals was 45 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The national median was 73 days. The source publishes this surgery as "Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy".

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026.

The source splits hernia repair in two: this page covers "Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy" — groin hernias — and every other hernia, such as umbilical, femoral and incisional hernias, is on hernia repair.

35 public hospitals in Victoria reported inguinal hernia repair in 2024–25. They are ranked by their published median wait alone, shortest first.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy" and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.

4 hospitals have no published median wait for this surgery in this period. They are listed last, marked "not published", and are never ranked.

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 73 days marks the national median.

Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy in Victoria public hospitals, 2024–25. Hospitals with the same median share a rank and the next rank is skipped. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Rank Hospital Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
1 Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital] 7 days 3.2% 93 surgeries
2 Monash Medical Centre [Clayton] 21 days 0.0% 179 surgeries
2 Sandringham Hospital 21 days 0.0% 138 surgeries
4 Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville] 24 days 5.6% 306 surgeries
5 The Northern Hospital [Epping] 26 days 0.0% 473 surgeries
6 University Hospital Geelong 28 days 0.0% 201 surgeries
7 Austin Hospital [Heidelberg] 30 days 3.3% 92 surgeries
8 Blackburn Public Surgical Centre 32 days 0.4% 260 surgeries
9 Bass Coast Health 42 days 0.0% 70 surgeries
10 Northeast Health Wangaratta 46 days 2.9% 102 surgeries
11 Frankston Hospital 48 days 0.0% 128 surgeries
11 Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West] 48 days 0.6% 165 surgeries
13 Casey Hospital 49 days 0.5% 213 surgeries
13 The Alfred 49 days 0.0% 135 surgeries
13 West Gippsland Healthcare Group [Warragul] 49 days 0.9% 111 surgeries
16 Box Hill Hospital 56 days 8.3% 96 surgeries
17 Frankston Public Surgical Centre 57 days 0.0% 180 surgeries
17 Goulburn Valley Health [Shepparton] 57 days 0.0% 129 surgeries
19 Dandenong Hospital 58 days 0.0% 89 surgeries
20 Latrobe Regional Hospital [Traralgon] 71 days 0.6% 157 surgeries
20 The Bendigo Hospital 71 days not published 45 surgeries
22 Angliss Hospital 79 days 2.0% 152 surgeries
22 Sunshine Hospital 79 days 0.0% 103 surgeries
24 Maroondah Hospital [East Ringwood] 84 days not published 10 surgeries
25 Williamstown Hospital 89 days 0.0% 143 surgeries
26 Western Hospital [Footscray] 90 days 0.0% 62 surgeries
27 Djerriwarrh Health Service [Bacchus Marsh] 97 days not published 12 surgeries
28 Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus] 101 days 11.5% 156 surgeries
29 Albury Wodonga Health [Wodonga Campus] 106 days 26.6% 94 surgeries
30 South West Healthcare [Warrnambool] 125 days not published 49 surgeries
31 Werribee Mercy Hospital 189 days 14.0% 129 surgeries
unranked Broadmeadows Health Service not published not published not published
unranked Healesville Hospital and Yarra Valley Health not published not published not published
unranked South West Healthcare [Camperdown] not published not published 7 surgeries
unranked The Kilmore & District Hospital not published not published 6 surgeries

Ranked by area in Victoria: near Box Hill · near Clayton · near Frankston · near Heidelberg · near Prahran · near St Albans.

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The median wait for inguinal hernia repair in Victoria public hospitals was 45 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

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Surgery Waits, "Inguinal hernia repair waiting times in Victoria", 2024–25 data released 28 May 2026, https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/inguinal-hernia-repair/vic/, accessed 28 May 2026.

Attribution: Surgery Waits (https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/inguinal-hernia-repair/vic/), 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.

Waiting times differ across state borders, and a referral can cross one — read what that means. Compare with every other state, or see every surgery reported in Victoria.