Cranioplasty waiting time at Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Cranioplasty 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: 79 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 19 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 15 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 14 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 Cranioplasty, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]	79 days	not published	19 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	29 days	1.0%	100 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	41 days	2.0%	352 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 41 days marks the national median.

Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville]VIC · about 1 km away43 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 2 km away25 days
The AlfredVIC · about 6 km away22 days
Monash Medical Centre [Clayton]VIC · about 23 km away20 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 Cranioplasty, 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	45
2017–18	not published	not published	35
2018–19	47	not published	29
2019–20	22	not published	29
2020–21	54	not published	39
2021–22	20	not published	29
2022–23	48	not published	50
2023–24	84	not published	48
2024–25	79	29	41

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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