Haemorrhoid surgery waiting time at St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]

The median wait for haemorrhoid surgery — published by the source as "Haemorrhoidectomy" — at this public hospital in the Fitzroy area of Victoria was 129 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: 129 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 25 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 109 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 93 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 182 days in 2011–12 to 129 days in 2024–25 — down 29% — while the national median rose from 57 days to 63 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is St Vincent's On the Park, about 1 km away, at 56 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Haemorrhoidectomy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]	129 days	not published	25 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.

St Vincent's On the ParkVIC · about 1 km away56 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 2 km away63 days
The AlfredVIC · about 4 km away29 days
Western Hospital [Footscray]VIC · about 8 km away41 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 8 km away28 days
Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]VIC · about 9 km away8 days
Williamstown HospitalVIC · about 10 km away47 days
Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 13 km away104 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	St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne] (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	182	63	57
2012–13	261	79	59
2013–14	206	69	59
2014–15	116	58	56
2015–16	128	55	54
2016–17	108	41	49
2017–18	101	37	47
2018–19	72	34	49
2019–20	108	38	57
2020–21	191	70	70
2021–22	143	99	77
2022–23	209	127	90
2023–24	66	53	67
2024–25	129	43	63

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

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