Surgery Waits

Osteotomy waiting time at Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]

The median wait for osteotomy at this public hospital in the Bellfield area of Victoria was 140 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
140 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
28 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 23 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 148 days in 2023–24 to 140 days in 2024–25 — down 5% — while the national median fell from 152 days to 135 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne], about 8 km away, at 92 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Osteotomy, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]140 daysnot published28 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)206 days34.3%510 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)135 days19.2%1866 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 135 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 osteotomy by financial year at Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West], compared with Victoria and Australiadays0751502253002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West] 140VIC 206Australia 135
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Osteotomy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodHeidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West] (days)VIC (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not reported for this period6876
2017–18not reported for this period8186
2018–19not reported for this period8890
2019–20not reported for this period117103
2020–21not reported for this period174136
2021–22not reported for this period203122
2022–23not reported for this period298157
2023–24148277152
2024–25140206135

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

All surgery at Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West] · Osteotomy across Australia · Osteotomy in Victoria