Inguinal hernia repair waiting time at Maroondah Hospital [East Ringwood]

Median wait, long waits and volumes for inguinal hernia repair — published by the source as “Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy” — at this public hospital in the Ringwood East 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: 84 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 10 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 186 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 101 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 40 days in 2011–12 to 84 days in 2024–25 — up 110% — while the national median rose from 57 days to 73 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Blackburn Public Surgical Centre, about 9 km away, at 32 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Maroondah Hospital [East Ringwood]	84 days	not published	10 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	45 days	2.6%	4290 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	73 days	5.0%	16694 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

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

Blackburn Public Surgical CentreVIC · about 9 km away32 days
Angliss HospitalVIC · about 11 km away79 days
Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 12 km away56 days
Monash Medical Centre [Clayton]VIC · about 16 km away21 days
Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]VIC · about 18 km away30 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 19 km away48 days
Dandenong HospitalVIC · about 19 km away58 days
The AlfredVIC · about 24 km away49 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 Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Maroondah Hospital [East Ringwood] (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	40	60	57
2012–13	66	71	60
2013–14	32	57	56
2014–15	35	42	51
2015–16	26	40	52
2016–17	17	38	52
2017–18	27	40	56
2018–19	26	39	59
2019–20	20	43	67
2020–21	63	71	76
2021–22	not published	81	77
2022–23	256	81	82
2023–24	55	47	70
2024–25	84	45	73

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

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