Surgery Waits

Cystoscopy waiting time at The Bendigo Hospital

The median wait for cystoscopy at this public hospital in the Bendigo area of Victoria was 28 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
28 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
1025 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
2.3%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 131 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 59 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 21 days in 2011–12 to 28 days in 2024–25 — up 33% — while the national median rose from 25 days to 26 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital], about 98 km away, at 21 days. Here, 2.3% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 1.3%.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Cystoscopy" 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 Cystoscopy, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
The Bendigo Hospital28 days2.3%1025 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)18 days0.6%23119 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)26 days1.3%57307 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 26 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 cystoscopy by financial year at The Bendigo Hospital, compared with Victoria and Australiadays0102030402011–122014–152017–182020–212023–242024–25The Bendigo Hospital 28VIC 18Australia 26
  • The Bendigo Hospital
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Cystoscopy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodThe Bendigo Hospital (days)VIC (days)Australia (days)
2011–12212125
2012–13262123
2013–14172123
2014–15162022
2015–16212023
2016–17161924
2017–18201824
2018–19211724
2019–20201523
2020–21241826
2021–22221724
2022–23321926
2023–24251625
2024–25281826

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

All surgery at The Bendigo Hospital · Cystoscopy across Australia · Cystoscopy in Victoria