Anal fissure - repair of waiting time at The Northern Hospital [Epping]

The median wait for anal fissure - repair of at this public hospital in the Lalor area of Victoria was 29 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: 29 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 227 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 21 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 8 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 28 days in 2016–17 to 29 days in 2024–25 — up 4% — while the national median rose from 36 days to 40 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West], about 12 km away, at 21 days. Here, 0.0% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 0.4%.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Anal fissure - repair of, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
The Northern Hospital [Epping]	29 days	0.0%	227 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	31 days	0.2%	436 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	40 days	0.4%	1127 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 40 days marks the national median.

Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 12 km away21 days
St Vincent's On the ParkVIC · about 18 km away81 days
Blackburn Public Surgical CentreVIC · about 24 km away23 days
Dandenong HospitalVIC · about 40 km away26 days
Frankston HospitalVIC · about 56 km away82 days
Cranbourne Integrated Care CentreVIC · about 56 km away118 days
Frankston Public Surgical CentreVIC · about 57 km away44 days
West Gippsland Healthcare Group [Warragul]VIC · about 99 km away44 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 Anal fissure - repair of, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	The Northern Hospital [Epping] (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	28	30	36
2017–18	19	37	43
2018–19	28	28	37
2019–20	25	29	38
2020–21	39	45	48
2021–22	57	69	58
2022–23	80	105	63
2023–24	26	32	35
2024–25	29	31	40

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

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