Haemorrhoid surgery waiting time at Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]

The median wait for haemorrhoid surgery — published by the source as "Haemorrhoidectomy" — at this public hospital in the Bellfield area of Victoria was 28 days in 2024–25.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026

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

Median wait: 28 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 247 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 2.0%2024–25 · released 28 May 2026

Half the people who had this surgery here waited less than the median, and half waited longer. Of the 109 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 8 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 42 days in 2023–24 to 28 days in 2024–25 — down 33% — while the national median fell from 67 days to 63 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Austin Hospital [Heidelberg], about 1 km away, at 8 days. Here, 2.0% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 2.6%.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Haemorrhoidectomy" and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Haemorrhoidectomy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]	28 days	2.0%	247 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	43 days	1.7%	2209 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	63 days	2.6%	4759 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 63 days marks the national median.

Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]VIC · about 1 km away8 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 8 km away129 days
St Vincent's On the ParkVIC · about 9 km away56 days
Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 9 km away104 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 9 km away63 days
The AlfredVIC · about 12 km away29 days
The Northern Hospital [Epping]VIC · about 12 km away33 days
Blackburn Public Surgical CentreVIC · about 13 km away49 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 Haemorrhoidectomy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West] (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	not reported for this period	63	57
2012–13	not reported for this period	79	59
2013–14	not reported for this period	69	59
2014–15	not reported for this period	58	56
2015–16	not reported for this period	55	54
2016–17	not reported for this period	41	49
2017–18	not reported for this period	37	47
2018–19	not reported for this period	34	49
2019–20	not reported for this period	38	57
2020–21	not reported for this period	70	70
2021–22	not reported for this period	99	77
2022–23	not reported for this period	127	90
2023–24	42	53	67
2024–25	28	43	63

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

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