Hydrocele - repair of waiting time at Casey Hospital
The median wait for hydrocele - repair of at this public hospital in the Berwick area of Victoria was 49 days in 2024–25.
Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released
These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.
- Median wait
- 49 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 23 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 6 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has fallen from 68 days in 2017–18 to 49 days in 2024–25 — down 28% — while the national median rose from 70 days to 95 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Frankston Public Surgical Centre, about 22 km away, at 43 days.
Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Hydrocele - repair of" and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.
How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Casey Hospital | 49 days | not published | 23 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
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Casey Hospital
- VIC
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Casey Hospital (days) | VIC (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | not published | 53 | 75 |
| 2017–18 | 68 | 54 | 70 |
| 2018–19 | 56 | 53 | 70 |
| 2019–20 | 97 | 72 | 87 |
| 2020–21 | 196 | 123 | 113 |
| 2021–22 | not published | 134 | 121 |
| 2022–23 | 225 | 189 | 138 |
| 2023–24 | 69 | 83 | 90 |
| 2024–25 | 49 | 70 | 95 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
All surgery at Casey Hospital · Hydrocele - repair of across Australia · Hydrocele - repair of in Victoria