Surgery Waits

Craniotomy waiting time at Monash Medical Centre [Clayton]

The median wait for craniotomy at this public hospital in the Springvale area of Victoria was 17 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
17 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
138 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
0.7%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 25 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 11 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 21 days in 2016–17 to 17 days in 2024–25 — down 19% — while the national median rose from 14 days to 20 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Austin Hospital [Heidelberg], about 21 km away, at 14 days. Here, 0.7% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 0.9%.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Craniotomy, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Monash Medical Centre [Clayton]17 days0.7%138 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)20 days0.8%723 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)20 days0.9%1392 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 20 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 craniotomy by financial year at Monash Medical Centre [Clayton], compared with Victoria and Australiadays0102030402016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Monash Medical Centre [Clayton] 17VIC 20Australia 20
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Craniotomy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodMonash Medical Centre [Clayton] (days)VIC (days)Australia (days)
2016–17211814
2017–18252117
2018–19402619
2019–20171714
2020–21221615
2021–22161514
2022–23242018
2023–24272422
2024–25172020

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

All surgery at Monash Medical Centre [Clayton] · Craniotomy across Australia · Craniotomy in Victoria