Surgery Waits

Laparoscopy waiting time at Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]

The median wait for laparoscopy at this public hospital in the Eaglemont area of Victoria was 8 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
8 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
30 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 149 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 4 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 17 days in 2019–20 to 8 days in 2024–25 — down 53% — while the national median rose from 64 days to 69 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne], about 9 km away, at 6 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Laparoscopy, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]8 daysnot published30 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)53 days2.5%3279 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)69 days5.4%9403 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 69 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 laparoscopy by financial year at Austin Hospital [Heidelberg], compared with Victoria and Australiadays03163941252016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Austin Hospital [Heidelberg] 8VIC 53Australia 69
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Laparoscopy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodAustin Hospital [Heidelberg] (days)VIC (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not reported for this period4147
2017–18not published4351
2018–19not published4857
2019–20175364
2020–21128979
2021–2288378
2022–231310382
2023–24106769
2024–2585369

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

All surgery at Austin Hospital [Heidelberg] · Laparoscopy across Australia · Laparoscopy in Victoria