Thyroglossal remnant - removal of waiting time at Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville]
The median wait for thyroglossal remnant - removal of at this public hospital in the North Melbourne area of Victoria was 137 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
- 137 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 14 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 5 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 5 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has risen from 23 days in 2016–17 to 137 days in 2024–25 — up 496% — while the national median rose from 57 days to 90 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Monash Medical Centre [Clayton], about 23 km away, at 114 days.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville] | 137 days | not published | 14 surgeries |
| Victoria (all public hospitals) | not published | not published | 55 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 90 days | 12.6% | 174 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 1000 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville]
- VIC
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville] (days) | VIC (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 23 | not published | 57 |
| 2017–18 | 30 | not published | 76 |
| 2018–19 | 26 | not published | 62 |
| 2019–20 | not published | not published | 88 |
| 2020–21 | not published | not published | 83 |
| 2021–22 | not published | not published | 90 |
| 2022–23 | 64 | not published | 117 |
| 2023–24 | 111 | not published | 93 |
| 2024–25 | 137 | not published | 90 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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