Radical neck dissection waiting time at St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Radical neck dissection 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: 16 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 26 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 17 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 8 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 Radical neck dissection, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]	16 days	not published	26 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	13 days	0.0%	199 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	15 days	0.9%	535 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 15 days marks the national median.

Peter MacCallum Cancer CentreVIC · about 2 km away9 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 2 km away12 days
Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 13 km away10 days
Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin]VIC · about 15 km away20 days
Dandenong HospitalVIC · about 29 km away17 days
The Bendigo HospitalVIC · about 133 km away16 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 Radical neck dissection, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne] (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not published	13	13
2017–18	not published	14	14
2018–19	6	14	15
2019–20	8	12	12
2020–21	11	13	13
2021–22	13	13	13
2022–23	15	13	14
2023–24	13	12	13
2024–25	16	13	15

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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