Varicose vein surgery waiting time at Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]

Median wait, long waits and volumes for varicose vein surgery — published by the source as “Varicose veins treatment” — at this public hospital in the Eaglemont area of Victoria, 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: 159 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 1.3%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 64 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 3 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 98 days in 2011–12 to 17 days in 2024–25 — down 83% — while the national median rose from 103 days to 133 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period. Here, 1.3% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 9.5%.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick “Varicose veins treatment” 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 Varicose veins treatment, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]	17 days	1.3%	159 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	80 days	9.0%	1224 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	133 days	9.5%	3346 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 133 days marks the national median.

Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 1 km away69 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 9 km away111 days
St Vincent's On the ParkVIC · about 9 km away76 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 10 km away92 days
Blackburn Public Surgical CentreVIC · about 12 km away185 days
The AlfredVIC · about 12 km away64 days
The Northern Hospital [Epping]VIC · about 12 km away93 days
Monash Medical Centre [Clayton]VIC · about 21 km away34 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 Varicose veins treatment, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Austin Hospital [Heidelberg] (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	98	112	103
2012–13	157	144	96
2013–14	88	126	97
2014–15	152	112	105
2015–16	253	121	104
2016–17	151	76	90
2017–18	76	83	101
2018–19	161	82	108
2019–20	167	92	129
2020–21	422	238	223
2021–22	263	235	208
2022–23	153	168	216
2023–24	53	148	189
2024–25	17	80	133

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

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