Surgery Waits

Varicose vein surgery waiting time at Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]

The median wait for varicose vein surgery — published by the source as "Varicose veins treatment" — at this public hospital in the Carlton area of Victoria was 92 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
92 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
24 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 64 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 16 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 303 days in 2015–16 to 92 days in 2024–25 — down 70% — while the national median rose from 104 days to 133 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is St Vincent's On the Park, about 2 km away, at 76 days.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Varicose veins treatment" 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 Varicose veins treatment, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]92 daysnot published24 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)80 days9.0%1224 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)133 days9.5%3346 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 133 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 varicose veins treatment by financial year at Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus], compared with Victoria and Australiadays01002003004002011–122014–152017–182020–212023–242024–25Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus] 92VIC 80Australia 133
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Varicose veins treatment, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodRoyal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus] (days)VIC (days)Australia (days)
2011–12not published112103
2012–13not published14496
2013–14not published12697
2014–15not published112105
2015–16303121104
2016–17not published7690
2017–1826283101
2018–19not published82108
2019–20not published92129
2020–21not published238223
2021–22not published235208
2022–23not published168216
2023–24279148189
2024–259280133

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

All surgery at Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus] · Varicose vein surgery across Australia · Varicose vein surgery in Victoria