Arthroscopy waiting time at Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]

The median wait for arthroscopy at this public hospital in the Carlton area of Victoria was 40 days in 2024–25.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026

These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.

Median wait: 40 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 93 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 7.5%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 150 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 18 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 134 days in 2016–17 to 40 days in 2024–25 — down 70% — while the national median rose from 68 days to 78 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period. Here, 7.5% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 7.1%.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Arthroscopy" and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Arthroscopy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]	40 days	7.5%	93 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	48 days	4.2%	1804 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	78 days	7.1%	8779 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 78 days marks the national median.

Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville]VIC · about 1 km away98 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 2 km away59 days
The AlfredVIC · about 6 km away46 days
Western Hospital [Footscray]VIC · about 6 km away60 days
Williamstown HospitalVIC · about 9 km away41 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 9 km away106 days
Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]VIC · about 10 km away107 days
Sunshine HospitalVIC · about 13 km away42 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Arthroscopy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus] (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	134	41	68
2017–18	105	48	72
2018–19	143	45	75
2019–20	86	51	76
2020–21	119	64	89
2021–22	40	64	85
2022–23	60	74	86
2023–24	72	63	78
2024–25	40	48	78

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

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