Hernia repair waiting time at Healesville Hospital and Yarra Valley Health

Median wait, long waits and volumes for hernia repair — published by the source as “Herniorrhaphy” — at this public hospital in the Healesville 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: 26 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 12 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: not published2024–25 · released 28 May 2026 — Reported data did not meet the criteria to calculate this indicator.

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 3 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 122 days in 2022–23 to 26 days in 2024–25 — down 79% — while the national median fell from 108 days to 86 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.

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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
Healesville Hospital and Yarra Valley Health	26 days	not published	12 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.

Angliss HospitalVIC · about 34 km away76 days
Blackburn Public Surgical CentreVIC · about 39 km away35 days
Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 41 km away77 days
Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]VIC · about 43 km away45 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 44 km away35 days
Monash Medical Centre [Clayton]VIC · about 45 km away78 days
The Northern Hospital [Epping]VIC · about 45 km away30 days
Dandenong HospitalVIC · about 46 km away80 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	Healesville Hospital and Yarra Valley Health (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 published	106	92
2021–22	not published	110	97
2022–23	122	129	108
2023–24	28	69	87
2024–25	26	56	86

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

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