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Urine passage widening waiting times in Victoria

The median wait for urine passage widening in Victoria public hospitals was 21 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The national median was 27 days. The source publishes this surgery as "Urethra - dilatation of".

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

19 public hospitals in Victoria reported urine passage widening in 2024–25. They are ranked by their published median wait alone, shortest first.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Urethra - dilatation of" and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.

15 hospitals have no published median wait for this surgery in this period. They are listed last, marked "not published", and are never ranked.

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 27 days marks the national median.

Urethra - dilatation of in Victoria public hospitals, 2024–25. Hospitals with the same median share a rank and the next rank is skipped. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Rank Hospital Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
1 Austin Hospital [Heidelberg] 14 days not published 18 surgeries
2 Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West] 18 days 0.0% 82 surgeries
3 The Northern Hospital [Epping] 36 days not published 10 surgeries
4 University Hospital Geelong 57 days not published 12 surgeries
unranked Albury Wodonga Health [Wodonga Campus] not published not published not published
unranked Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital] not published not published 7 surgeries
unranked Box Hill Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Casey Hospital not published not published 5 surgeries
unranked Frankston Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Maroondah Hospital [East Ringwood] not published not published not published
unranked Monash Medical Centre [Clayton] not published not published 5 surgeries
unranked Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin] not published not published not published
unranked Northeast Health Wangaratta not published not published not published
unranked Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville] not published not published not published
unranked Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus] not published not published 6 surgeries
unranked St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne] not published not published not published
unranked The Alfred not published not published 5 surgeries
unranked The Bendigo Hospital not published not published 5 surgeries
unranked Williamstown Hospital not published not published not published

Ranked by area in Victoria: near Heidelberg.

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The median wait for urine passage widening in Victoria public hospitals was 21 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

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Surgery Waits, "Urine passage widening waiting times in Victoria", 2024–25 data released 28 May 2026, https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/urethra-dilatation-of/vic/, accessed 28 May 2026.

Attribution: Surgery Waits (https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/urethra-dilatation-of/vic/), 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.

Waiting times differ across state borders, and a referral can cross one — read what that means. Compare with every other state, or see every surgery reported in Victoria.