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title: "Salivary gland removal near Heidelberg"
description: "Public hospitals in or near Heidelberg ranked by median wait for salivary gland removal, 2024–25. Shortest wait: 28 days."
url: "https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/parotidectomy-submandibular-gland-excision-of/near/heidelberg/"
---

# Salivary gland removal near Heidelberg

Near Heidelberg, [Austin Hospital \[Heidelberg\]](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/austin-hospital-heidelberg/parotidectomy-submandibular-gland-excision-of/) had the shortest median wait for salivary gland removal in 2024–25: **28 days** (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026.

3 public hospitals are ranked here by the median wait the source published for salivary gland removal, shortest first, and by nothing else. Every hospital listed is within 120 km of every other. 1 hospital sits just outside this area, within about 25 km of one of its hospitals, and is included because a referral can cross the line. The source publishes this surgery as "Parotidectomy/submandibular gland - excision of".

## Hospitals in or near Heidelberg

Parotidectomy/submandibular gland - excision of at public hospitals in or near Heidelberg, 2024–25, by median wait. Hospitals with the same median share a rank. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.

| Rank | Hospital | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Where |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | [Austin Hospital \[Heidelberg\]](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/austin-hospital-heidelberg/parotidectomy-submandibular-gland-excision-of/) | 28 days | 4.0% | Heidelberg, VIC. In this area. |
| 2 | [Box Hill Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/box-hill-hospital/parotidectomy-submandibular-gland-excision-of/) | 37 days | not published | Box Hill, VIC. Outside this area, about 8 km from Austin Hospital \[Heidelberg\]. |
| 3 | [Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital \[Heidelberg West\]](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/heidelberg-repatriation-hospital-heidelberg-west/parotidectomy-submandibular-gland-excision-of/) | 177 days | not published | Bellfield, VIC. In this area. |

This area covers Austin Hospital \[Heidelberg\] and Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital \[Heidelberg West\]: the hospitals of the source's Local Hospital Network "Austin Health (Vic)". Distances are straight lines between hospital locations, rounded to the nearest kilometre; they are not travel distances. A shorter median does not mean a hospital will see you sooner: your urgency category and your specialist decide that.

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> Near Heidelberg, Austin Hospital \[Heidelberg\] had the shortest median wait for salivary gland removal in 2024–25: 28 days (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

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Surgery Waits, "Salivary gland removal near Heidelberg: hospital waits", 2024–25 data released 28 May 2026, https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/parotidectomy-submandibular-gland-excision-of/near/heidelberg/, accessed 28 May 2026.
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Attribution: Surgery Waits ([https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/parotidectomy-submandibular-gland-excision-of/near/heidelberg/](https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/parotidectomy-submandibular-gland-excision-of/near/heidelberg/)), from Australian Institute of Health and Welfare MyHospitals data, CC BY 3.0 AU. Reference period 2024–25, released 28 May 2026.

## What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

See [every Victoria hospital for salivary gland removal](https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/parotidectomy-submandibular-gland-excision-of/vic/), or every hospital in [Austin Health](https://surgerywaits.au/health-service/austin-health/).

## Before you use these figures

Surgery Waits is not medical advice. It republishes official statistics about waiting times that have already happened, and it does not recommend any hospital, doctor or treatment. Your general practitioner (GP) and your treating specialist are the right people to help you decide what is appropriate for you.

**In an emergency call 000.**

Waiting-time figures: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare MyHospitals, licensed under [CC BY 3.0 AU](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/). Quarterly state figures: Queensland Health. Suburb and locality data: Australian Bureau of Statistics. Both licensed under [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Surgery Waits is not connected with any of these organisations.

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