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Salivary gland removal at Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]

Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West] is a public hospital in the Bellfield area, Victoria. This page shows its waiting times for Salivary gland removal in 2024–25, beside the figures for Victoria and for Australia.

The source publishes this surgery as "Parotidectomy/submandibular gland - excision of".

Figures for this hospital

Each tile shows one figure for Salivary gland removal at Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West].

A rank compares this hospital with every public hospital in Australia that published the same figure for the same period. The page shows a rank only on a current published figure. It never ranks a withheld or unreported figure. It also never ranks a figure from an earlier period.

Median wait, Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]
177 days2024–25, released 19 August 2026

Rank54th of 54 nationally

Change on the year before+116 days

Waiting more than 365 days, Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]
not published: the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare did not publish a figure2024–25, released 19 August 2026
Patients treated, Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]
12 surgeries2024–25, released 19 August 2026

Compared with the state and Australia

The state and national rows cover every public hospital that reported Salivary gland removal. They are never ranked.

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Salivary gland removal: Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West], Victoria and Australia2024–25, released 19 August 2026
Who the figures coverMedian waitWaiting more than 365 daysPatients treated
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]177 daysnot published: the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare did not publish a figure12 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)42 days4.5%514 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)45 days4.1%1,742 surgeries

Shorter waits nearby

Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West] has 8 public hospitals on its list of nearby public hospitals. The open hospitals below come from that list, nearest first, and each published a shorter median wait for Salivary gland removal than Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West] did. Each distance is measured in a straight line.

  1. Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]1 kilometre away28 days2024–25, released 19 August 2026

How this hospital's wait has changed

The median wait for Salivary gland removal at Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West] has risen from 61 days in 2023–24 to 177 days in 2024–25. The earlier figure is from 2023–24, released 19 August 2026, and the latest is from 2024–25, released 19 August 2026.

Each chart shows the median wait for each year the source published it. A year with no published figure is a gap in the line, and the table under the chart gives the reason.

Salivary gland removal: median wait by financial year, Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]2023–24 to 2024–25, released 19 August 2026
0501001502002023–242024–25
  • Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]
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Salivary gland removal: median wait by financial year, Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]2023–24 to 2024–25, released 19 August 2026
Financial yearHeidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]
2023–2461 days
2024–25177 days
Salivary gland removal: median wait by financial year, Victoria and Australia2016–17 to 2024–25, released 19 August 2026
02040602016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25
  • Victoria
  • Australia
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Salivary gland removal: median wait by financial year, Victoria and Australia2016–17 to 2024–25, released 19 August 2026
Financial yearVictoriaAustralia
2016–1728 days30 days
2017–1842 days38 days
2018–1933 days37 days
2019–2048 days41 days
2020–2128 days42 days
2021–2224 days34 days
2022–2343 days44 days
2023–2440 days43 days
2024–2542 days45 days

All planned surgery at Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]

Salivary gland removal at every public hospital in Australia

Salivary gland removal in Victoria

What this page leaves out

Private hospitals are excluded. This page covers public hospitals only, so it shows no private hospital.

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Where this data comes from

  • Dataset on publicdata.au
    Elective surgery waiting times by hospital and urgency category, Australia
    Publisher
    Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    Version
    3 October 2026
    Data released
    19 August 2026
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    How to cite this data
    Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australian Government, MyHospitals Data API, elective surgery waiting times data extract, sourced 3 October 2026, https://myhospitalsapi.aihw.gov.au/, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/au-elective-surgery-waiting-times/v/2026-10-03/
  • Dataset on publicdata.au
    Elective surgery waiting times by hospital and intended procedure, Australia
    Publisher
    Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    Version
    20 October 2026
    Data released
    19 August 2026
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    How to cite this data
    Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australian Government, MyHospitals Data API, elective surgery waiting times data extract, sourced 19 October 2026, https://myhospitalsapi.aihw.gov.au/, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/au-elective-surgery-waiting-times-by-procedure/v/2026-10-20/
  • Dataset on publicdata.au
    Elective surgery waiting times by hospital and surgical specialty, Australia
    Publisher
    Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    Version
    20 October 2026
    Data released
    19 August 2026
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    How to cite this data
    Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australian Government, MyHospitals Data API, elective surgery waiting times data extract, sourced 19 October 2026, https://myhospitalsapi.aihw.gov.au/, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/au-elective-surgery-waiting-times-by-specialty/v/2026-10-20/
  • Dataset on publicdata.au
    Hospitals, Local Hospital Networks and Primary Health Networks in MyHospitals, Australia
    Publisher
    Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    Version
    3 October 2026
    Data released
    19 August 2026
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    How to cite this data
    Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australian Government, MyHospitals Data API, mapping details extract, sourced 3 October 2026, https://myhospitalsapi.aihw.gov.au/, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/au-hospitals-myhospitals/v/2026-10-03/
  • Dataset on publicdata.au
    Reported measures and their codes in MyHospitals, Australia
    Publisher
    Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    Version
    27 October 2026
    Data released
    The publisher gives no release date for this dataset.
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    How to cite this data
    Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australian Government, MyHospitals Data API, reported measures, sourced 26 October 2026, https://myhospitalsapi.aihw.gov.au/, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/au-myhospitals-reported-measures/v/2026-10-27/
  • Dataset on publicdata.au
    Reporting unit mappings to health networks and states in MyHospitals, Australia
    Publisher
    Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    Version
    27 October 2026
    Data released
    The publisher gives no release date for this dataset.
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    How to cite this data
    Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australian Government, MyHospitals Data API, reporting units, sourced 26 October 2026, https://myhospitalsapi.aihw.gov.au/, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/au-myhospitals-reporting-unit-mappings/v/2026-10-27/
  • Dataset on publicdata.au
    Reporting unit codes and alternative names in MyHospitals, Australia
    Publisher
    Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    Version
    27 October 2026
    Data released
    The publisher gives no release date for this dataset.
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    How to cite this data
    Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australian Government, MyHospitals Data API, reporting units, sourced 26 October 2026, https://myhospitalsapi.aihw.gov.au/, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/au-myhospitals-reporting-units/v/2026-10-27/