Laminectomy waiting time at The Alfred

The median wait for laminectomy at this public hospital in the South Yarra area of Victoria was 36 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: 36 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 54 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 0.0%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 24 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 2 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 53 days in 2016–17 to 36 days in 2024–25 — down 32% — while the national median rose from 57 days to 66 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period. Here, 0.0% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 7.4%.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Laminectomy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
The Alfred	36 days	0.0%	54 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	53 days	3.7%	459 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	66 days	7.4%	1772 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 66 days marks the national median.

Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 6 km away70 days
Western Hospital [Footscray]VIC · about 10 km away70 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 12 km away61 days
Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]VIC · about 12 km away40 days
Monash Medical Centre [Clayton]VIC · about 18 km away55 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 Laminectomy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	The Alfred (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	53	40	57
2017–18	63	78	68
2018–19	58	73	73
2019–20	56	72	69
2020–21	76	59	70
2021–22	31	28	70
2022–23	80	100	92
2023–24	49	86	68
2024–25	36	53	66

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

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