Discectomy waiting time at Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]

The median wait for discectomy at this public hospital in the Carlton area of Victoria was 30 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: 30 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 85 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 1.2%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 30 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 7 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 27 days in 2016–17 to 30 days in 2024–25 — up 11% — while the national median stayed at 41 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Monash Medical Centre [Clayton], about 23 km away, at 21 days. Here, 1.2% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 4.5%.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Discectomy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]	30 days	1.2%	85 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	29 days	1.9%	264 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	41 days	4.5%	1400 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 41 days marks the national median.

The AlfredVIC · about 6 km away32 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 9 km away39 days
Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]VIC · about 10 km away41 days
Monash Medical Centre [Clayton]VIC · about 23 km away21 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 Discectomy, 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	27	45	41
2017–18	99	58	42
2018–19	57	47	43
2019–20	29	47	49
2020–21	29	33	49
2021–22	86	34	49
2022–23	98	57	60
2023–24	90	45	48
2024–25	30	29	41

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

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