Abdominal or thoracic aortic aneurysm - repair/replacement waiting time at Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Abdominal or thoracic aortic aneurysm - repair/replacement at this public hospital, with the nearest alternatives that published a figure.

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

Median wait: 17 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 45 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 9 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Abdominal or thoracic aortic aneurysm - repair/replacement, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]	17 days	not published	45 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	15 days	0.5%	208 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	24 days	0.8%	862 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 24 days marks the national median.

Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 8 km away13 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 9 km away16 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 10 km away16 days
The Northern Hospital [Epping]VIC · about 12 km away15 days

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

How the wait has changed

Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]
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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Abdominal or thoracic aortic aneurysm - repair/replacement, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Austin Hospital [Heidelberg] (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	22	not published	21
2017–18	19	22	22
2018–19	23	22	22
2019–20	18	17	21
2020–21	27	17	22
2021–22	10	20	23
2022–23	13	19	25
2023–24	16	16	27
2024–25	17	15	24

What is not here

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

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