Western Hospital [Footscray] surgery waiting times
Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026
Western Hospital [Footscray] is a public hospital in Victoria. It reported 14 surgery types to the national planned-surgery collection for 2024–25.
Waiting times by surgery
Shortest median wait first. A surgery the source did not publish a figure for is listed last and is never ranked.
| Surgery | Median wait | Surgeries | Waited more than 365 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cystoscopy | 19 days | 196 surgeries | 3.1% |
| Haemorrhoidectomy | 41 days | 52 surgeries | 0.0% |
| Prostatectomy (transurethral or open) | 41 days | 159 surgeries | 12.6% |
| Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic) | 50 days | 104 surgeries | 0.0% |
| Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy | 90 days | 62 surgeries | 0.0% |
| Total hip replacement | 144 days | 47 surgeries | not published |
| Total knee replacement | 278 days | 54 surgeries | 37.0% |
| Myringoplasty/tympanoplasty | 787 days | 11 surgeries | not published |
| Cataract extraction (with or without intra-ocular lens insertion) | not published | not published | not published |
| Hysterectomy (abdominal/vaginal/laparoscopic) | not published | 7 surgeries | not published |
| Myringotomy | not published | not published | not published |
| Septoplasty | not published | not published | not published |
| Tonsillectomy (with or without adenoidectomy) | not published | 6 surgeries | not published |
| Varicose veins treatment | not published | not published | not published |
Urgency categories
Urgency figures cover all planned surgery at the hospital, not one procedure. They are never combined with the procedure figures. Your treating specialist assigns your urgency category — it is not something you choose.
| Urgency category | Median wait | Treated within the recommended time | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Urgent | 11 days | 100% | 1570 surgeries |
| Semi-urgent | 80 days | 54% | 1270 surgeries |
| Non-urgent | 204 days | 76% | 212 surgeries |
What is not here
Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.