Surgery Waits

Cystectomy waiting time at Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital]

The median wait for cystectomy at this public hospital in the Ballarat Central area of Victoria was 59 days in 2024–25.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released

These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.

Median wait
59 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
12 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 18 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 15 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 26 days in 2017–18 to 59 days in 2024–25 — up 127% — while the national median stayed at 29 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Royal Women's Hospital [Parkville], about 101 km away, at 53 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Cystectomy, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital]59 daysnot published12 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)25 days3.8%133 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)29 days1.5%517 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 29 days marks the national median.

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

How the wait has changed

Median wait for cystectomy by financial year at Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital], compared with Victoria and Australiadays0193856752016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital] 59VIC 25Australia 29
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Cystectomy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodBallarat Health Services [Base Hospital] (days)VIC (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not publishednot published27
2017–18263329
2018–19232929
2019–20222427
2020–21252729
2021–22403228
2022–23292832
2023–24543130
2024–25592529

Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.

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