Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus] surgery waiting times
Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus] is a public hospital in Victoria. It reported 15 surgery types to the national planned-surgery collection for 2024–25.
Waiting times by surgery
Shortest median wait first. A surgery the source did not publish a figure for is listed last and is never ranked.
| Surgery | Median wait | Surgeries | Waited more than 365 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coronary artery bypass grafting | 11 days | 101 surgeries | 0.0% |
| Cystoscopy | 22 days | 1621 surgeries | 1.1% |
| Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic) | 50 days | 122 surgeries | 5.7% |
| Prostatectomy (transurethral or open) | 54 days | 123 surgeries | 6.5% |
| Haemorrhoidectomy | 63 days | 30 surgeries | not published |
| Cataract extraction (with or without intra-ocular lens insertion) | 88 days | 471 surgeries | 0.2% |
| Varicose veins treatment | 92 days | 24 surgeries | not published |
| Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy | 101 days | 156 surgeries | 11.5% |
| Tonsillectomy (with or without adenoidectomy) | 118 days | 59 surgeries | 15.3% |
| Total hip replacement | 193 days | 101 surgeries | 10.9% |
| Total knee replacement | 225 days | 134 surgeries | 15.7% |
| Septoplasty | 288 days | 88 surgeries | 34.1% |
| Hysterectomy (abdominal/vaginal/laparoscopic) | not published | not published | not published |
| Myringoplasty/tympanoplasty | not published | not published | not published |
| Myringotomy | not published | not published | not published |
Urgency categories
Urgency figures cover all planned surgery at the hospital, not one procedure. They are never combined with the procedure figures. Your treating specialist assigns your urgency category — it is not something you choose.
| Urgency category | Median wait | Treated within the recommended time | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Urgent | 13 days | 100% | 4388 surgeries |
| Semi-urgent | 62 days | 62% | 4148 surgeries |
| Non-urgent | 165 days | 82% | 1346 surgeries |
What is not here
Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.