Surgery Waits

Microlaryngoscopy waiting time at Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville]

The median wait for microlaryngoscopy at this public hospital in the North Melbourne area of Victoria was 56 days in 2024–25.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released

These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.

Median wait
56 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
75 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
9.3%2024–25 · released 28 May 2026

Half the people who had this surgery here waited less than the median, and half waited longer. Of the 44 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 37 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 19 days in 2020–21 to 56 days in 2024–25 — up 195% — while the national median rose from 23 days to 26 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus], about 1 km away, at 22 days. Here, 9.3% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 3.3%.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Microlaryngoscopy" and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Microlaryngoscopy, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville]56 days9.3%75 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)19 days4.6%439 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)26 days3.3%1915 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 26 days marks the national median.

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for microlaryngoscopy by financial year at Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville], compared with Victoria and Australiadays0193856752016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville] 56VIC 19Australia 26
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Microlaryngoscopy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodRoyal Children's Hospital [Parkville] (days)VIC (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not published2224
2017–18not published2223
2018–19not published1925
2019–20not published1722
2020–21191823
2021–22221521
2022–23241622
2023–24301926
2024–25561926

Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.

All surgery at Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville] · Microlaryngoscopy across Australia · Microlaryngoscopy in Victoria