Haemorrhoid surgery waiting time at Williamstown Hospital

The median wait for haemorrhoid surgery — published by the source as "Haemorrhoidectomy" — at this public hospital in the Williamstown area of Victoria was 47 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: 47 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 67 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 0.0%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 109 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 25 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 203 days in 2011–12 to 47 days in 2024–25 — down 77% — while the national median rose from 57 days to 63 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Western Hospital [Footscray], about 8 km away, at 41 days. Here, 0.0% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 2.6%.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Haemorrhoidectomy" 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 Haemorrhoidectomy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Williamstown Hospital	47 days	0.0%	67 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	43 days	1.7%	2209 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	63 days	2.6%	4759 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 63 days marks the national median.

Western Hospital [Footscray]VIC · about 8 km away41 days
The AlfredVIC · about 8 km away29 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 9 km away63 days
St Vincent's On the ParkVIC · about 10 km away56 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 10 km away129 days
Sunshine HospitalVIC · about 13 km away49 days
Sandringham HospitalVIC · about 15 km away15 days
Werribee Mercy HospitalVIC · about 17 km away56 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 Haemorrhoidectomy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Williamstown Hospital (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	203	63	57
2012–13	132	79	59
2013–14	55	69	59
2014–15	53	58	56
2015–16	32	55	54
2016–17	39	41	49
2017–18	50	37	47
2018–19	34	34	49
2019–20	28	38	57
2020–21	67	70	70
2021–22	118	99	77
2022–23	115	127	90
2023–24	30	53	67
2024–25	47	43	63

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

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