Cystectomy waiting time at Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]

The median wait for cystectomy at this public hospital in the Eaglemont area of Victoria was 17 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: 17 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 15 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 18 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 2 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 23 days in 2017–18 to 17 days in 2024–25 — down 26% — while the national median stayed at 29 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Cystectomy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]	17 days	not published	15 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	25 days	3.8%	133 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	29 days	1.5%	517 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 29 days marks the national median.

Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 10 km away35 days
Royal Women's Hospital [Parkville]VIC · about 10 km away53 days
Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital]VIC · about 109 km away59 days
South West Healthcare [Warrnambool]VIC · about 237 km away64 days

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

How the wait has changed

Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]
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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Cystectomy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Austin Hospital [Heidelberg] (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not published	not published	27
2017–18	23	33	29
2018–19	20	29	29
2019–20	15	24	27
2020–21	13	27	29
2021–22	not published	32	28
2022–23	20	28	32
2023–24	18	31	30
2024–25	17	25	29

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

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