Surgery Waits

Hydrocele - repair of waiting time at Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville]

The median wait for hydrocele - repair of at this public hospital in the North Melbourne area of Victoria was 161 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
161 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
28 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 40 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 60 days in 2016–17 to 161 days in 2024–25 — up 168% — while the national median rose from 75 days to 95 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus], about 1 km away, at 122 days.

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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 Children's Hospital [Parkville]161 daysnot published28 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)70 days5.4%261 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)95 days9.8%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.

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for hydrocele - repair of by financial year at Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville], compared with Victoria and Australiadays01252503755002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville] 161VIC 70Australia 95
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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 periodRoyal Children's Hospital [Parkville] (days)VIC (days)Australia (days)
2016–17605375
2017–18595470
2018–19705370
2019–20557287
2020–21253123113
2021–22165134121
2022–23403189138
2023–241928390
2024–251617095

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

All surgery at Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville] · Hydrocele - repair of across Australia · Hydrocele - repair of in Victoria