Discectomy waiting time at Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Discectomy 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: 39 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 30 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 12 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 Discectomy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]	39 days	not published	18 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	29 days	1.9%	264 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	41 days	4.5%	1400 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 41 days marks the national median.

Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]VIC · about 1 km away41 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 9 km away30 days
The AlfredVIC · about 12 km away32 days
Monash Medical Centre [Clayton]VIC · about 21 km away21 days

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

How the wait has changed

Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]
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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Discectomy, 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	45	41
2017–18	not reported for this period	58	42
2018–19	not reported for this period	47	43
2019–20	not reported for this period	47	49
2020–21	not reported for this period	33	49
2021–22	not reported for this period	34	49
2022–23	not reported for this period	57	60
2023–24	46	45	48
2024–25	39	29	41

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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