Surgery Waits

Cervical discectomy and fusion waiting time at Monash Medical Centre [Clayton]

The median wait for cervical discectomy and fusion at this public hospital in the Springvale area of Victoria was 23 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
23 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
48 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 23 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 2 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 17 days in 2016–17 to 23 days in 2024–25 — up 35% — while the national median rose from 66 days to 94 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Cervical discectomy and fusion, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Monash Medical Centre [Clayton]23 daysnot published48 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)40 days3.8%240 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)94 days12.9%1076 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 94 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 cervical discectomy and fusion by financial year at Monash Medical Centre [Clayton], compared with Victoria and Australiadays038751131502016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Monash Medical Centre [Clayton] 23VIC 40Australia 94
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Cervical discectomy and fusion, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodMonash Medical Centre [Clayton] (days)VIC (days)Australia (days)
2016–1717not published66
2017–18324267
2018–19214976
2019–20685280
2020–21263990
2021–22212183
2022–232228139
2023–243863111
2024–25234094

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

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