Surgery Waits

Hydrocele - repair of waiting time at Royal Hobart Hospital

The median wait for hydrocele - repair of at this public hospital in the Hobart area of Tasmania was 92 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
92 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
18 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 23 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 90 days in 2016–17 to 92 days in 2024–25 — up 2% — while the national median rose from 75 days to 95 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Launceston General Hospital, about 160 km away, at 87 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

Median wait, long waits and volume for Hydrocele - repair of, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Royal Hobart Hospital92 daysnot published18 surgeries
Tasmania (all public hospitals)not publishednot published32 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 1000 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

Some of these hospitals are in another state — a public hospital referral can cross the border, so ask your GP what that would mean for you.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for hydrocele - repair of by financial year at Royal Hobart Hospital, compared with Tasmania and Australiadays0501001502002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Royal Hobart Hospital 92Australia 95
  • Royal Hobart Hospital
  • TAS
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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 Hobart Hospital (days)TAS (days)Australia (days)
2016–1790not published75
2017–1846not published70
2018–19158not published70
2019–2086not published87
2020–2182not published113
2021–22104not published121
2022–2369not published138
2023–2451not published90
2024–2592not published95

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

All surgery at Royal Hobart Hospital · Hydrocele - repair of across Australia · Hydrocele - repair of in Tasmania