Hernia repair waiting time at Blackburn Public Surgical Centre

Median wait, long waits and volumes for hernia repair — published by the source as “Herniorrhaphy” — at this public hospital in the Blackburn South 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: 35 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 180 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 0.6%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 10 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 166 days in 2022–23 to 35 days in 2024–25 — down 79% — while the national median fell from 108 days to 86 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is St Vincent's On the Park, about 16 km away, at 27 days. Here, 0.6% 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
Blackburn Public Surgical Centre	35 days	0.6%	180 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.

Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 4 km away77 days
Monash Medical Centre [Clayton]VIC · about 10 km away78 days
Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]VIC · about 12 km away45 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 13 km away35 days
The AlfredVIC · about 15 km away47 days
Angliss HospitalVIC · about 16 km away76 days
St Vincent's On the ParkVIC · about 16 km away27 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 16 km away83 days

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

How the wait has changed

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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	Blackburn Public Surgical Centre (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not reported for this period	48	63
2017–18	not reported for this period	49	67
2018–19	not reported for this period	49	69
2019–20	not reported for this period	54	78
2020–21	not reported for this period	106	92
2021–22	not reported for this period	110	97
2022–23	166	129	108
2023–24	38	69	87
2024–25	35	56	86

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

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