Scar revision waiting time at The Alfred

The median wait for scar revision at this public hospital in the South Yarra area of Victoria was 5 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: 5 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 191 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 29 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 1 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 49 days in 2016–17 to 5 days in 2024–25 — down 90% — while the national median rose from 65 days to 83 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 9.5%.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Scar revision, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
The Alfred	5 days	0.0%	191 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	50 days	9.1%	364 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	83 days	9.5%	1239 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 83 days marks the national median.

Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 6 km away100 days
Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville]VIC · about 6 km away216 days
Dandenong HospitalVIC · about 25 km away173 days
Frankston HospitalVIC · about 36 km away170 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 Scar revision, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	The Alfred (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	49	58	65
2017–18	107	74	67
2018–19	63	80	73
2019–20	80	108	83
2020–21	61	177	84
2021–22	130	not published	121
2022–23	144	178	133
2023–24	26	83	103
2024–25	5	50	83

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

All surgery at The Alfred · Scar revision across Australia · Scar revision in Victoria