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title: "Royal Women's Hospital [Parkville] surgery waiting times"
description: "Planned surgery waiting times and waiting list at Royal Women's Hospital [Parkville], a public hospital in the North Melbourne area of Victoria, for 2024–25."
url: "https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/royal-womens-hospital-parkville/"
---

# Royal Women's Hospital \[Parkville\] surgery waiting times

In 2024–25, this public hospital in the North Melbourne area of Victoria published median waits from **14 days** for breast removal to **321 days** for breast reduction.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026.

Royal Women's Hospital \[Parkville\] is a public hospital in the North Melbourne area of Victoria. It is part of [Royal Women's Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/health-service/royal-womens-hospital/). It reported 22 surgery types to the national planned-surgery collection for 2024–25. 10 surgery types were last reported in an earlier period; they are listed below, with the period the source last carried them.

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## Waiting times by surgery

Shortest median wait first. A surgery the source did not publish a figure for is listed after those, and a surgery it did not report at all this period is listed last. Neither is ranked, and neither shows an older figure in place of a current one.

Planned surgery at Royal Women's Hospital \[Parkville\], 2024–25. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.

| Surgery | Median wait | Surgeries | Waited more than 365 days |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Mastectomy](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/royal-womens-hospital-parkville/mastectomy/) | 14 days | 36 surgeries | not published |
| [Breast lump - excision and/or biopsy](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/royal-womens-hospital-parkville/breast-lump-removal/) | 17 days | 157 surgeries | 0.6% |
| [Hysteroscopy, dilatation and curettage](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/royal-womens-hospital-parkville/dilatation-and-curettage/) | 21 days | 1121 surgeries | 0.0% |
| [Hysterectomy (abdominal/vaginal/laparoscopic)](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/royal-womens-hospital-parkville/hysterectomy/) | 28 days | 424 surgeries | 1.4% |
| [Large loop excision of the transformation zone cervix (LLETZ)](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/royal-womens-hospital-parkville/lletz-procedure/) | 28 days | 288 surgeries | 0.0% |
| [Salpingo-oophorectomy/oophorectomy/ovarian cystectomy](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/royal-womens-hospital-parkville/salpingo-oophorectomy-oophorectomy-ovarian-cystectomy/) | 37 days | 290 surgeries | 0.3% |
| [Myomectomy](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/royal-womens-hospital-parkville/myomectomy/) | 49 days | 62 surgeries | 0.0% |
| [Laparoscopy](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/royal-womens-hospital-parkville/laparoscopy/) | 51 days | 550 surgeries | 0.7% |
| [Cystectomy](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/royal-womens-hospital-parkville/cystectomy/) | 53 days | 15 surgeries | not published |
| [Cystoscopy](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/royal-womens-hospital-parkville/cystoscopy/) | 54 days | 163 surgeries | 1.8% |
| [Endometrial ablation](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/royal-womens-hospital-parkville/endometrial-ablation/) | 84 days | 28 surgeries | not published |
| [Vaginal repair - anterior/posterior](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/royal-womens-hospital-parkville/prolapse-repair/) | 91 days | 98 surgeries | 10.2% |
| [Female sterilisation](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/royal-womens-hospital-parkville/female-sterilisation/) | 114 days | 25 surgeries | not published |
| [Breast prosthesis - removal of](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/royal-womens-hospital-parkville/breast-prosthesis-removal-of/) | 119 days | 18 surgeries | not published |
| [Breast reduction](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/royal-womens-hospital-parkville/breast-reduction/) | 321 days | 32 surgeries | not published |
| [Axillary node dissection](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/royal-womens-hospital-parkville/axillary-node-dissection/) | not published | not published | not published |
| [Bartholin's abscess drainage](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/royal-womens-hospital-parkville/bartholins-abscess-drainage/) | not published | 6 surgeries | not published |
| [Breast reconstruction](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/royal-womens-hospital-parkville/breast-reconstruction/) | not published | not published | not published |
| [Cone biopsy](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/royal-womens-hospital-parkville/cone-biopsy/) | not published | 7 surgeries | not published |
| [Scar revision](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/royal-womens-hospital-parkville/scar-revision/) | not published | not published | not published |
| [Skin lesion - excision of](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/royal-womens-hospital-parkville/skin-lesion-removal/) | not published | not published | not published |
| [Stress incontinence surgery](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/royal-womens-hospital-parkville/stress-incontinence-surgery/) | not published | 7 surgeries | not published |

**Not reported for this period**

| Surgery | Median wait | Surgeries | Waited more than 365 days |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Anal fissure - repair of last reported 2018–19 | not reported |  |  |
| Colectomy/anterior resection/large bowel resection last reported 2018–19 | not reported |  |  |
| Corneal graft last reported 2023–24 | not reported |  |  |
| Curettage and evacuation of uterus last reported 2016–17 | not reported |  |  |
| Dermoid cyst - removal of last reported 2018–19 | not reported |  |  |
| Diathermy of wart/s last reported 2018–19 | not reported |  |  |
| Haemorrhoidectomy last reported 2017–18 | not reported |  |  |
| Herniorrhaphy last reported 2018–19 | not reported |  |  |
| Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy last reported 2018–19 | not reported |  |  |
| Muscle biopsy/temporal artery biopsy last reported 2023–24 | not reported |  |  |

## Urgency categories

Urgency figures cover all planned surgery at the hospital, not one procedure. They are never combined with the procedure figures. Your treating specialist assigns your urgency category — it is not something you choose. [What the categories mean, and how every hospital compares.](https://surgerywaits.au/urgency/)

All planned surgery at Royal Women's Hospital \[Parkville\] by urgency category, 2024–25.

| Urgency category | Median wait | Treated within the recommended time | Surgeries |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Urgent](https://surgerywaits.au/urgency/category-1/vic/) | 15 days | 100% | 1596 surgeries |
| [Semi-urgent](https://surgerywaits.au/urgency/category-2/vic/) | 49 days | 81% | 2147 surgeries |
| [Non-urgent](https://surgerywaits.au/urgency/category-3/vic/) | 131 days | 81% | 511 surgeries |

**Cite this page**

> In 2024–25, Royal Women's Hospital \[Parkville\] published median planned-surgery waits from 14 days for breast removal to 321 days for breast reduction (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

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Surgery Waits, "Royal Women's Hospital [Parkville] waiting list", 2024–25 data released 28 May 2026, https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/royal-womens-hospital-parkville/, accessed 28 May 2026.
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Attribution: Surgery Waits ([https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/royal-womens-hospital-parkville/](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/royal-womens-hospital-parkville/)), from Australian Institute of Health and Welfare MyHospitals data, CC BY 3.0 AU. Reference period 2024–25, released 28 May 2026.

## What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

[How these figures are put together](https://surgerywaits.au/methodology/) · [All surgery waits in Victoria](https://surgerywaits.au/state/vic/) · [All hospitals](https://surgerywaits.au/hospitals/)

## Before you use these figures

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Waiting-time figures: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare MyHospitals, licensed under [CC BY 3.0 AU](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/). Quarterly state figures: Queensland Health. Suburb and locality data: Australian Bureau of Statistics. Both licensed under [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Surgery Waits is not connected with any of these organisations.

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