Parathyroidectomy waiting time at The Alfred

The median wait for parathyroidectomy at this public hospital in the South Yarra area of Victoria was 49 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: 49 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 50 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 47 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 40 days in 2016–17 to 49 days in 2024–25 — up 23% — while the national median rose from 56 days to 82 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period. Here, 0.0% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 4.0%.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Parathyroidectomy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
The Alfred	49 days	0.0%	50 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	75 days	1.4%	355 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	82 days	4.0%	1304 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 82 days marks the national median.

St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 4 km away64 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 6 km away71 days
Western Hospital [Footscray]VIC · about 10 km away117 days
Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]VIC · about 12 km away97 days
Monash Medical Centre [Clayton]VIC · about 18 km away148 days
The Northern Hospital [Epping]VIC · about 22 km away75 days
Frankston HospitalVIC · about 36 km away120 days
The Bendigo HospitalVIC · about 137 km away125 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 Parathyroidectomy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	The Alfred (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	40	56	56
2017–18	46	64	63
2018–19	46	60	57
2019–20	40	58	63
2020–21	109	70	69
2021–22	118	80	73
2022–23	141	104	84
2023–24	96	106	87
2024–25	49	75	82

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

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