Hydrocele - repair of waiting time at Royal Hobart Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Hydrocele - repair of at this public hospital, 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: 92 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 18 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 52 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 23 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Hydrocele - repair of, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Royal Hobart Hospital	92 days	not published	18 surgeries
Tasmania (all public hospitals)	not published	not published	32 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	70 days	5.4%	261 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	95 days	9.8%	1477 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 95 days marks the national median.

Launceston General HospitalTAS · about 160 km away87 days
Frankston Public Surgical CentreVIC · about 557 km away43 days
Casey HospitalVIC · about 563 km away49 days
Monash Medical Centre [Clayton]VIC · about 581 km away80 days
Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 594 km away58 days
Yarra Ranges HealthVIC · about 594 km away88 days
St Vincent's On the ParkVIC · about 598 km away17 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 600 km away122 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 1000 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

Some of these hospitals are in another state. Public hospital referrals can cross state borders. Ask your general practitioner (GP) what that would mean for you — see can my GP refer me to a different hospital?

How the wait has changed

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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Hydrocele - repair of, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Royal Hobart Hospital (days)	TAS (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	90	not published	75
2017–18	46	not published	70
2018–19	158	not published	70
2019–20	86	not published	87
2020–21	82	not published	113
2021–22	104	not published	121
2022–23	69	not published	138
2023–24	51	not published	90
2024–25	92	not published	95

What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

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