Haemorrhoid surgery waiting time at Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]

The median wait for haemorrhoid surgery — published by the source as "Haemorrhoidectomy" — at this public hospital in the Carlton area of Victoria was 63 days in 2024–25.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026

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

Median wait: 63 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 30 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 109 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 47 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 206 days in 2011–12 to 63 days in 2024–25 — down 69% — while the national median rose from 57 days to 63 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is St Vincent's On the Park, about 2 km away, at 56 days.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Haemorrhoidectomy" 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 Haemorrhoidectomy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]	63 days	not published	30 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	43 days	1.7%	2209 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	63 days	2.6%	4759 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 63 days marks the national median.

St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 2 km away129 days
St Vincent's On the ParkVIC · about 2 km away56 days
The AlfredVIC · about 6 km away29 days
Western Hospital [Footscray]VIC · about 6 km away41 days
Williamstown HospitalVIC · about 9 km away47 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 9 km away28 days
Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]VIC · about 10 km away8 days
Sunshine HospitalVIC · about 13 km away49 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 Haemorrhoidectomy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus] (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	206	63	57
2012–13	353	79	59
2013–14	282	69	59
2014–15	256	58	56
2015–16	212	55	54
2016–17	149	41	49
2017–18	155	37	47
2018–19	189	34	49
2019–20	205	38	57
2020–21	201	70	70
2021–22	169	99	77
2022–23	362	127	90
2023–24	84	53	67
2024–25	63	43	63

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

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