Surgery Waits

Laminectomy waiting time at Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]

The median wait for laminectomy at this public hospital in the Bellfield area of Victoria was 61 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
61 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
18 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 24 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 9 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 70 days in 2023–24 to 61 days in 2024–25 — down 13% — while the national median fell from 68 days to 66 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Austin Hospital [Heidelberg], about 1 km away, at 40 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Laminectomy, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]61 daysnot published18 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)53 days3.7%459 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)66 days7.4%1772 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 66 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 laminectomy by financial year at Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West], compared with Victoria and Australiadays02550751002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West] 61VIC 53Australia 66
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Laminectomy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodHeidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West] (days)VIC (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not reported for this period4057
2017–18not reported for this period7868
2018–19not reported for this period7373
2019–20not reported for this period7269
2020–21not reported for this period5970
2021–22not reported for this period2870
2022–23not reported for this period10092
2023–24708668
2024–25615366

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

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