Craniotomy waiting time at Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]

The median wait for craniotomy at this public hospital in the Carlton area of Victoria was 20 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: 20 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 203 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 1.0%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 13 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here is unchanged from 2016–17 (20 days) — 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 10 km away, at 14 days. Here, 1.0% 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
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]	20 days	1.0%	203 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	20 days	0.8%	723 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	20 days	0.9%	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.

Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville]VIC · about 1 km away46 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 2 km away34 days
The AlfredVIC · about 6 km away22 days
Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]VIC · about 10 km away14 days
Monash Medical Centre [Clayton]VIC · about 23 km away17 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 Craniotomy, 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	20	18	14
2017–18	24	21	17
2018–19	22	26	19
2019–20	17	17	14
2020–21	15	16	15
2021–22	15	15	14
2022–23	21	20	18
2023–24	22	24	22
2024–25	20	20	20

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

All surgery at Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus] · Craniotomy across Australia · Craniotomy in Victoria