Ureteric stent - insertion of waiting time at Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]
The median wait for ureteric stent - insertion of 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
These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.
- Median wait
- 30 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 28 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 39 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 24 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has risen from 29 days in 2023–24 to 30 days in 2024–25 — up 3% — while the national median fell from 26 days to 24 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, about 0 km away, at 15 days.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus] | 30 days | not published | 28 surgeries |
| Victoria (all public hospitals) | 21 days | 0.0% | 207 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 24 days | 0.6% | 2982 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]
- VIC
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus] (days) | VIC (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | not reported for this period | not published | 17 |
| 2017–18 | not reported for this period | 15 | 21 |
| 2018–19 | not reported for this period | 20 | 22 |
| 2019–20 | not reported for this period | not published | 21 |
| 2020–21 | not reported for this period | 14 | 22 |
| 2021–22 | not published | 20 | 21 |
| 2022–23 | not published | 21 | 24 |
| 2023–24 | 29 | 16 | 26 |
| 2024–25 | 30 | 21 | 24 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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