Radical neck dissection waiting time at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre

The median wait for radical neck dissection at this public hospital in the Carlton area of Victoria was 9 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: 9 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 48 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 17 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 15 days in 2016–17 to 9 days in 2024–25 — down 40% — while the national median rose from 13 days to 15 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Radical neck dissection, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre	9 days	not published	48 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	13 days	0.0%	199 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	15 days	0.9%	535 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 15 days marks the national median.

Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 0 km away12 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 2 km away16 days
Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 14 km away10 days
Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin]VIC · about 16 km away20 days
Dandenong HospitalVIC · about 30 km away17 days
The Bendigo HospitalVIC · about 131 km away16 days

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

How the wait has changed

Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Radical neck dissection, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	15	13	13
2017–18	19	14	14
2018–19	18	14	15
2019–20	13	12	12
2020–21	13	13	13
2021–22	12	13	13
2022–23	13	13	14
2023–24	11	12	13
2024–25	9	13	15

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

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