Bunion surgery waiting time at Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]

Median wait, long waits and volumes for bunion surgery — published by the source as “Bunion (hallux valgus) - removal of” — at this public hospital in the Bellfield 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: 182 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 18 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 19 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 11 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 174 days in 2023–24 to 182 days in 2024–25 — up 5% — while the national median fell from 206 days to 183 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne], about 8 km away, at 32 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Bunion (hallux valgus) - removal of, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]	182 days	not published	18 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	95 days	14.3%	189 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	183 days	16.2%	616 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 183 days marks the national median.

St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 8 km away32 days
Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 9 km away102 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 9 km away194 days
Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin]VIC · about 18 km away278 days
Maroondah Hospital [East Ringwood]VIC · about 19 km away171 days
Frankston Public Surgical CentreVIC · about 45 km away95 days
University Hospital GeelongVIC · about 74 km away173 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 Bunion (hallux valgus) - removal of, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West] (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not reported for this period	67	137
2017–18	not reported for this period	69	121
2018–19	not reported for this period	71	142
2019–20	not reported for this period	94	137
2020–21	not reported for this period	203	262
2021–22	not reported for this period	162	231
2022–23	not reported for this period	181	222
2023–24	174	159	206
2024–25	182	95	183

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

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