Bunion surgery waiting time at Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin]
The median wait for bunion surgery — published by the source as "Bunion (hallux valgus) - removal of" — at this public hospital in the Bentleigh East area of Victoria was 278 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
- 278 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 11 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 19 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 14 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has risen from 176 days in 2017–18 to 278 days in 2024–25 — up 58% — while the national median rose from 121 days to 183 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Box Hill Hospital, about 13 km away, at 102 days.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin] | 278 days | not published | 11 surgeries |
| Victoria (all public hospitals) | 95 days | 14.3% | 189 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 183 days | 16.2% | 616 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
- Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin]
- VIC
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin] (days) | VIC (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | not published | 67 | 137 |
| 2017–18 | 176 | 69 | 121 |
| 2018–19 | 247 | 71 | 142 |
| 2019–20 | 163 | 94 | 137 |
| 2020–21 | 397 | 203 | 262 |
| 2021–22 | not published | 162 | 231 |
| 2022–23 | 437 | 181 | 222 |
| 2023–24 | 227 | 159 | 206 |
| 2024–25 | 278 | 95 | 183 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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