Inguinal hernia repair waiting time at Frankston Public Surgical Centre

The median wait for inguinal hernia repair — published by the source as "Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy" — at this public hospital in the Frankston area of Victoria was 57 days in 2024–25.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026

These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.

Median wait: 57 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 180 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 58 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 49 days in 2022–23 to 57 days in 2024–25 — up 16% — while the national median fell from 82 days to 73 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Frankston Hospital, about 1 km away, at 48 days. 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
Frankston Public Surgical Centre	57 days	0.0%	180 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.

Frankston HospitalVIC · about 1 km away48 days
Dandenong HospitalVIC · about 21 km away58 days
Casey HospitalVIC · about 22 km away49 days
Sandringham HospitalVIC · about 24 km away21 days
Monash Medical Centre [Clayton]VIC · about 25 km away21 days
Angliss HospitalVIC · about 33 km away79 days
Blackburn Public Surgical CentreVIC · about 36 km away32 days
The AlfredVIC · about 37 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	Frankston Public Surgical Centre (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	not reported for this period	60	57
2012–13	not reported for this period	71	60
2013–14	not reported for this period	57	56
2014–15	not reported for this period	42	51
2015–16	not reported for this period	40	52
2016–17	not reported for this period	38	52
2017–18	not reported for this period	40	56
2018–19	not reported for this period	39	59
2019–20	not reported for this period	43	67
2020–21	not reported for this period	71	76
2021–22	not reported for this period	81	77
2022–23	49	81	82
2023–24	26	47	70
2024–25	57	45	73

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

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