Breast reduction waiting time at Royal Women's Hospital [Parkville]

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Breast reduction 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: 321 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 32 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 24 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 11 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 Breast reduction, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Royal Women's Hospital [Parkville]	321 days	not published	32 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	182 days	27.9%	190 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	309 days	33.2%	744 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 309 days marks the national median.

Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville]VIC · about 1 km away395 days
The Northern Hospital [Epping]VIC · about 17 km away61 days
Blackburn Public Surgical CentreVIC · about 18 km away87 days
Dandenong HospitalVIC · about 30 km away849 days
Frankston Public Surgical CentreVIC · about 43 km away258 days
Casey HospitalVIC · about 44 km away260 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 Breast reduction, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Royal Women's Hospital [Parkville] (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not published	424	178
2017–18	279	244	216
2018–19	319	230	250
2019–20	298	not published	326
2020–21	395	not published	347
2021–22	not published	not published	301
2022–23	411	358	365
2023–24	279	312	325
2024–25	321	182	309

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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