Surgery Waits

Stone/s urinary tract - removal of waiting time at Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]

The median wait for stone/s urinary tract - removal of 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

These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.

Median wait
17 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
19 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 28 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 21 days in 2019–20 to 17 days in 2024–25 — down 19% — while the national median fell from 28 days to 25 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Frankston Public Surgical Centre, about 45 km away, at 13 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Stone/s urinary tract - removal of, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]17 daysnot published19 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)20 days0.8%1680 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)25 days1.5%3653 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 25 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 stone/s urinary tract - removal of by financial year at Austin Hospital [Heidelberg], compared with Victoria and Australiadays081523302016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Austin Hospital [Heidelberg] 17VIC 20Australia 25
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Stone/s urinary tract - removal of, 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 period2228
2017–18not reported for this period2229
2018–19not published1926
2019–20212328
2020–21252029
2021–22241621
2022–23not published1823
2023–24191424
2024–25172025

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

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