Osteotomy waiting time at The Alfred

The median wait for osteotomy at this public hospital in the South Yarra 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: 23 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 49 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 1 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 60 days in 2016–17 to 20 days in 2024–25 — down 67% — while the national median rose from 76 days to 135 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Osteotomy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
The Alfred	20 days	not published	23 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	206 days	34.3%	510 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	135 days	19.2%	1866 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 135 days marks the national median.

St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 4 km away92 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 6 km away402 days
Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville]VIC · about 6 km away374 days
Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin]VIC · about 11 km away183 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 12 km away140 days
Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 13 km away68 days
Sandringham HospitalVIC · about 13 km away224 days
Sunshine HospitalVIC · about 17 km away104 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 Osteotomy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	The Alfred (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	60	68	76
2017–18	53	81	86
2018–19	37	88	90
2019–20	189	117	103
2020–21	56	174	136
2021–22	78	203	122
2022–23	135	298	157
2023–24	134	277	152
2024–25	20	206	135

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

All surgery at The Alfred · Osteotomy across Australia · Osteotomy in Victoria