Surgery Waits

Microlaryngoscopy waiting time at Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]

The median wait for microlaryngoscopy at this public hospital in the Carlton area of Victoria was 22 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
22 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
67 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
4.5%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 44 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 22 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 21 days in 2017–18 to 22 days in 2024–25 — up 5% — while the national median rose from 23 days to 26 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, about 0 km away, at 6 days. Here, 4.5% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 3.3%.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Microlaryngoscopy" 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 Microlaryngoscopy, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]22 days4.5%67 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)19 days4.6%439 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)26 days3.3%1915 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 26 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 microlaryngoscopy by financial year at Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus], compared with Victoria and Australiadays081523302016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus] 22VIC 19Australia 26
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Microlaryngoscopy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodRoyal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus] (days)VIC (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not published2224
2017–18212223
2018–19251925
2019–20251722
2020–21201823
2021–22171521
2022–23231622
2023–24231926
2024–25221926

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

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