Surgery Waits

Laparoscopy waiting time at Dandenong Hospital

The median wait for laparoscopy at this public hospital in the Dandenong area of Victoria was 191 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
191 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
65 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
9.2%2024–25 · released 28 May 2026

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 140 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 37 days in 2016–17 to 191 days in 2024–25 — up 416% — while the national median rose from 47 days to 69 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Monash Medical Centre [Clayton], about 8 km away, at 9 days. Here, 9.2% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 5.4%.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Laparoscopy" and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Laparoscopy, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Dandenong Hospital191 days9.2%65 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 Dandenong Hospital, compared with Victoria and Australiadays0751502253002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Dandenong Hospital 191VIC 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 periodDandenong Hospital (days)VIC (days)Australia (days)
2016–17374147
2017–18454351
2018–19864857
2019–20755364
2020–211628979
2021–221428378
2022–2329810382
2023–24616769
2024–251915369

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

All surgery at Dandenong Hospital · Laparoscopy across Australia · Laparoscopy in Victoria