Laminectomy waiting time at Western Hospital [Footscray]

The median wait for laminectomy at this public hospital in the Footscray area of Victoria was 70 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: 70 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 34 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 10 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 40 days in 2016–17 to 70 days in 2024–25 — up 75% — while the national median rose from 57 days to 66 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is The Alfred, about 10 km away, at 36 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
Western Hospital [Footscray]	70 days	not published	34 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	53 days	3.7%	459 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	66 days	7.4%	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.

Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 6 km away70 days
The AlfredVIC · about 10 km away36 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 15 km away61 days
Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]VIC · about 16 km away40 days
Monash Medical Centre [Clayton]VIC · about 28 km away55 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

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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 period	Western Hospital [Footscray] (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	40	40	57
2017–18	78	78	68
2018–19	79	73	73
2019–20	80	72	69
2020–21	77	59	70
2021–22	23	28	70
2022–23	314	100	92
2023–24	169	86	68
2024–25	70	53	66

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

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