Lithotripsy waiting time at Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]

The median wait for lithotripsy at this public hospital in the Eaglemont area of Victoria was 10 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: 10 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 12 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 49 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 10 days in 2024–25 — down 41% — while the national median stayed at 28 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 Lithotripsy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]	10 days	not published	12 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	26 days	0.4%	675 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	28 days	0.8%	2881 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 28 days marks the national median.

Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 1 km away21 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 9 km away25 days
St Vincent's On the ParkVIC · about 9 km away22 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 10 km away43 days
The AlfredVIC · about 12 km away19 days
The Northern Hospital [Epping]VIC · about 12 km away33 days
Williamstown HospitalVIC · about 19 km away155 days
Werribee Mercy HospitalVIC · about 35 km away151 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 Lithotripsy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Austin Hospital [Heidelberg] (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not reported for this period	25	34
2017–18	not published	22	29
2018–19	not published	28	36
2019–20	17	21	28
2020–21	20	29	34
2021–22	20	45	33
2022–23	22	33	30
2023–24	16	31	28
2024–25	10	26	28

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

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