Anal fissure - repair of waiting time at Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]

The median wait for anal fissure - repair of at this public hospital in the Bellfield area of Victoria was 21 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: 21 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 31 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 21 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 3 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 53 days in 2023–24 to 21 days in 2024–25 — down 60% — while the national median rose from 35 days to 40 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 Anal fissure - repair of, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]	21 days	not published	31 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.

St Vincent's On the ParkVIC · about 9 km away81 days
The Northern Hospital [Epping]VIC · about 12 km away29 days
Blackburn Public Surgical CentreVIC · about 13 km away23 days
Dandenong HospitalVIC · about 29 km away26 days
Frankston HospitalVIC · about 44 km away82 days
Cranbourne Integrated Care CentreVIC · about 45 km away118 days
Frankston Public Surgical CentreVIC · about 45 km away44 days
West Gippsland Healthcare Group [Warragul]VIC · about 90 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	Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West] (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not reported for this period	30	36
2017–18	not reported for this period	37	43
2018–19	not reported for this period	28	37
2019–20	not reported for this period	29	38
2020–21	not reported for this period	45	48
2021–22	not reported for this period	69	58
2022–23	not reported for this period	105	63
2023–24	53	32	35
2024–25	21	31	40

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

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