Cervical discectomy and fusion waiting time at Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Cervical discectomy and fusion 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: 27 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 37 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 23 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 Cervical discectomy and fusion, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]	27 days	not published	37 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.

The AlfredVIC · about 6 km away31 days
Western Hospital [Footscray]VIC · about 6 km away34 days
Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]VIC · about 10 km away60 days
Monash Medical Centre [Clayton]VIC · about 23 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	Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus] (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not published	not published	66
2017–18	not published	42	67
2018–19	not published	49	76
2019–20	142	52	80
2020–21	26	39	90
2021–22	20	21	83
2022–23	29	28	139
2023–24	76	63	111
2024–25	27	40	94

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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