Lithotripsy waiting time at The Bendigo Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Lithotripsy 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: 176 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 26 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 49 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 49 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 Lithotripsy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
The Bendigo Hospital	176 days	not published	26 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	26 days	0.4%	675 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	28 days	0.8%	2881 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 28 days marks the national median.

Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital]VIC · about 98 km away22 days
Goulburn Valley Health [Shepparton]VIC · about 109 km away62 days
The Northern Hospital [Epping]VIC · about 120 km away33 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 131 km away21 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 131 km away43 days
Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]VIC · about 131 km away10 days
Werribee Mercy HospitalVIC · about 132 km away151 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 133 km away25 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 Lithotripsy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	The Bendigo Hospital (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not reported for this period	25	34
2017–18	not reported for this period	22	29
2018–19	24	28	36
2019–20	17	21	28
2020–21	170	29	34
2021–22	79	45	33
2022–23	66	33	30
2023–24	142	31	28
2024–25	176	26	28

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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