Hernia repair waiting time at Sunshine Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for hernia repair — published by the source as “Herniorrhaphy” — at this public hospital in the Sunshine North 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: 124 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 64 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 3.1%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 113 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 33 days in 2016–17 to 124 days in 2024–25 — up 276% — while the national median rose from 63 days to 86 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Western Hospital [Footscray], about 7 km away, at 83 days. Here, 3.1% 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
Sunshine Hospital	124 days	3.1%	64 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.

Western Hospital [Footscray]VIC · about 7 km away83 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 13 km away112 days
Peter MacCallum Cancer CentreVIC · about 13 km away62 days
Williamstown HospitalVIC · about 13 km away104 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 15 km away83 days
St Vincent's On the ParkVIC · about 15 km away27 days
The AlfredVIC · about 17 km away47 days
Werribee Mercy HospitalVIC · about 18 km away125 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	Sunshine Hospital (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	33	48	63
2017–18	51	49	67
2018–19	48	49	69
2019–20	45	54	78
2020–21	93	106	92
2021–22	95	110	97
2022–23	58	129	108
2023–24	56	69	87
2024–25	124	56	86

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

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