Surgery Waits

Rhinoplasty waiting time at Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]

The median wait for rhinoplasty at this public hospital in the Bellfield area of Victoria was 951 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
951 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 15 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 14 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 755 days in 2023–24 to 951 days in 2024–25 — up 26% — while the national median rose from 360 days to 376 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is The Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital, about 9 km away, at 723 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Rhinoplasty, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]951 daysnot published19 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)606 days69.0%126 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)376 days54.0%424 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 376 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 rhinoplasty by financial year at Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West], compared with Victoria and Australiadays025050075010002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West] 951VIC 606Australia 376
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Rhinoplasty, 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 period178231
2017–18not reported for this period238278
2018–19not reported for this period282286
2019–20not reported for this period317308
2020–21not reported for this period423353
2021–22not reported for this periodnot published309
2022–23not reported for this period587409
2023–24755671360
2024–25951606376

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

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