Cervical discectomy and fusion waiting time at The Alfred

The median wait for cervical discectomy and fusion at this public hospital in the South Yarra area of Victoria was 31 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: 31 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 66 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 0.0%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 23 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 4 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 24 days in 2017–18 to 31 days in 2024–25 — up 29% — while the national median rose from 67 days to 94 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus], about 6 km away, at 27 days. Here, 0.0% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 12.9%.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Cervical discectomy and fusion, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
The Alfred	31 days	0.0%	66 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	40 days	3.8%	240 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	94 days	12.9%	1076 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 94 days marks the national median.

Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 6 km away27 days
Western Hospital [Footscray]VIC · about 10 km away34 days
Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]VIC · about 12 km away60 days
Monash Medical Centre [Clayton]VIC · about 18 km away23 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 Cervical discectomy and fusion, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	The Alfred (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not published	not published	66
2017–18	24	42	67
2018–19	49	49	76
2019–20	20	52	80
2020–21	63	39	90
2021–22	67	21	83
2022–23	82	28	139
2023–24	26	63	111
2024–25	31	40	94

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

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