Surgery Waits

Cranioplasty waiting time at The Alfred

The median wait for cranioplasty at this public hospital in the South Yarra area of Victoria was 22 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
22 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
23 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 15 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 3 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here is unchanged from 2017–18 (22 days) — while the national median rose from 35 days to 41 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Monash Medical Centre [Clayton], about 18 km away, at 20 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Cranioplasty, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
The Alfred22 daysnot published23 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)29 days1.0%100 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)41 days2.0%352 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 41 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 cranioplasty by financial year at The Alfred, compared with Victoria and Australiadays0132538502016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25The Alfred 22VIC 29Australia 41
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Cranioplasty, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodThe Alfred (days)VIC (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not publishednot published45
2017–1822not published35
2018–1914not published29
2019–20not publishednot published29
2020–21not publishednot published39
2021–2214not published29
2022–2321not published50
2023–24not publishednot published48
2024–25222941

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

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