Hernia repair waiting time at Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]

Median wait, long waits and volumes for hernia repair — published by the source as “Herniorrhaphy” — at this public hospital in the Eaglemont area of Victoria, with the nearest alternatives that published a figure.

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

Median wait: 45 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 70 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 4.3%2024–25 · released 28 May 2026

Half the people who had this surgery here waited less than the median, and half waited longer. Of the 169 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 17 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 53 days in 2016–17 to 45 days in 2024–25 — down 15% — while the national median rose from 63 days to 86 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West], about 1 km away, at 35 days. Here, 4.3% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 6.9%.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Herniorrhaphy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]	45 days	4.3%	70 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	56 days	3.6%	3381 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	86 days	6.9%	12195 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 86 days marks the national median.

Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 1 km away35 days
Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 8 km away77 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 9 km away83 days
St Vincent's On the ParkVIC · about 9 km away27 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 10 km away112 days
Peter MacCallum Cancer CentreVIC · about 10 km away62 days
Blackburn Public Surgical CentreVIC · about 12 km away35 days
The AlfredVIC · about 12 km away47 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]
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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Herniorrhaphy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Austin Hospital [Heidelberg] (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	53	48	63
2017–18	70	49	67
2018–19	86	49	69
2019–20	60	54	78
2020–21	121	106	92
2021–22	70	110	97
2022–23	185	129	108
2023–24	150	69	87
2024–25	45	56	86

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

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