Surgery Waits

Turbinectomy waiting time at Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]

The median wait for turbinectomy at this public hospital in the Bellfield area of Victoria was 369 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
369 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
28 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 21 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here is unchanged from 2023–24 (369 days) — while the national median fell from 286 days to 269 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is The Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital, about 9 km away, at 195 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Turbinectomy, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]369 daysnot published28 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)157 days28.2%393 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)269 days23.6%932 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 269 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 turbinectomy by financial year at Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West], compared with Victoria and Australiadays01002003004002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West] 369VIC 157Australia 269
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Turbinectomy, 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 period64100
2017–18not reported for this period87172
2018–19not reported for this period79140
2019–20not reported for this period97168
2020–21not reported for this period159274
2021–22not reported for this period133266
2022–23not reported for this period245313
2023–24369247286
2024–25369157269

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

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