Laparoscopy waiting time at Williamstown Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Laparoscopy 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: 79 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 13 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 149 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 82 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 Laparoscopy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Williamstown Hospital	79 days	not published	13 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	53 days	2.5%	3279 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	69 days	5.4%	9403 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 69 days marks the national median.

Western Hospital [Footscray]VIC · about 8 km away36 days
The AlfredVIC · about 8 km away12 days
Peter MacCallum Cancer CentreVIC · about 9 km away11 days
Royal Women's Hospital [Parkville]VIC · about 9 km away51 days
Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville]VIC · about 9 km away123 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 10 km away6 days
Sunshine HospitalVIC · about 13 km away48 days
Sandringham MonashVIC · about 15 km away123 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 Laparoscopy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Williamstown Hospital (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not published	41	47
2017–18	not reported for this period	43	51
2018–19	not reported for this period	48	57
2019–20	not reported for this period	53	64
2020–21	not reported for this period	89	79
2021–22	not published	83	78
2022–23	42	103	82
2023–24	29	67	69
2024–25	79	53	69

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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