Inguinal hernia repair waiting time at Monash Medical Centre [Clayton]

Median wait, long waits and volumes for inguinal hernia repair — published by the source as “Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy” — at this public hospital in the Springvale 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: 21 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 179 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 0.0%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 186 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 9 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 30 days in 2011–12 to 21 days in 2024–25 — down 30% — while the national median rose from 57 days to 73 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period. Here, 0.0% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 5.0%.

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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
Monash Medical Centre [Clayton]	21 days	0.0%	179 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.

Dandenong HospitalVIC · about 8 km away58 days
Blackburn Public Surgical CentreVIC · about 10 km away32 days
Sandringham HospitalVIC · about 13 km away21 days
Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 13 km away56 days
Angliss HospitalVIC · about 14 km away79 days
Maroondah Hospital [East Ringwood]VIC · about 16 km away84 days
The AlfredVIC · about 18 km away49 days
Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]VIC · about 21 km away30 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	Monash Medical Centre [Clayton] (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	30	60	57
2012–13	21	71	60
2013–14	59	57	56
2014–15	29	42	51
2015–16	25	40	52
2016–17	23	38	52
2017–18	27	40	56
2018–19	14	39	59
2019–20	11	43	67
2020–21	15	71	76
2021–22	14	81	77
2022–23	36	81	82
2023–24	22	47	70
2024–25	21	45	73

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

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