Pterygium - excision of waiting time at Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Pterygium - excision of 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: 130 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 15 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 65 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 23 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 Pterygium - excision of, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]	130 days	not published	15 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	90 days	3.4%	348 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	197 days	15.7%	2442 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 197 days marks the national median.

The Royal Victorian Eye & Ear HospitalVIC · about 9 km away77 days
Broadmeadows Health ServiceVIC · about 14 km away106 days
Yarra Ranges HealthVIC · about 27 km away225 days
Cranbourne Integrated Care CentreVIC · about 45 km away127 days
University Hospital GeelongVIC · about 74 km away50 days
Bass Coast HealthVIC · about 106 km away11 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 Pterygium - excision 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	74	128
2017–18	not reported for this period	70	152
2018–19	not reported for this period	49	125
2019–20	not reported for this period	50	155
2020–21	not reported for this period	147	230
2021–22	not reported for this period	140	238
2022–23	not reported for this period	197	241
2023–24	not published	132	191
2024–25	130	90	197

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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