Lithotripsy waiting time at Werribee Mercy 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: 151 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 49 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 47 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
Werribee Mercy Hospital	151 days	not published	18 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.

Williamstown HospitalVIC · about 17 km away155 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 25 km away43 days
The AlfredVIC · about 25 km away19 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 26 km away25 days
St Vincent's On the ParkVIC · about 26 km away22 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 34 km away21 days
Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]VIC · about 35 km away10 days
The Northern Hospital [Epping]VIC · about 38 km away33 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	Werribee Mercy Hospital (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not reported for this period	25	34
2017–18	not published	22	29
2018–19	65	28	36
2019–20	70	21	28
2020–21	89	29	34
2021–22	131	45	33
2022–23	69	33	30
2023–24	104	31	28
2024–25	151	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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