Cleft lip and palate - repair of waiting time at Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville]

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Cleft lip and palate - repair of at this public hospital, with the nearest alternatives that published a figure.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026

Median wait: 81 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 83 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 1.2%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 8 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 3 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Cleft lip and palate - repair of, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville]	81 days	1.2%	83 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	87 days	1.1%	185 surgeries
Tasmania (all public hospitals)	not published	not published	12 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	91 days	11.1%	162 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	80 days	4.5%	597 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 80 days marks the national median.

Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin]VIC · about 17 km away560 days
Monash Medical Centre [Clayton]VIC · about 23 km away83 days
Royal Hobart HospitalTAS · about 600 km away110 days
The Children's Hospital at WestmeadNSW · about 703 km away89 days
Sydney Children's HospitalNSW · about 712 km away80 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 1000 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

Some of these hospitals are in another state. Public hospital referrals can cross state borders. Ask your general practitioner (GP) what that would mean for you — see can my GP refer me to a different hospital?

How the wait has changed

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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Cleft lip and palate - repair of, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville] (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	52	64	53
2017–18	81	88	68
2018–19	75	141	78
2019–20	121	136	64
2020–21	94	93	71
2021–22	99	95	82
2022–23	80	87	89
2023–24	61	82	81
2024–25	81	91	80

What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

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