Surgery Waits

Brain surgery through the skull (craniotomy) waiting times in Victoria

The median wait for brain surgery through the skull (craniotomy) in Victoria public hospitals was 20 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The national median was 20 days. The source publishes this surgery as "Craniotomy".

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

8 public hospitals in Victoria reported brain surgery through the skull (craniotomy) in 2024–25. They are ranked by their published median wait alone, shortest first.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Craniotomy" and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.

2 hospitals have no published median wait for this surgery in this period. They are listed last, marked "not published", and are never ranked.

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 20 days marks the national median.

Craniotomy in Victoria public hospitals, 2024–25. Hospitals with the same median share a rank and the next rank is skipped. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Rank Hospital Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
1 Austin Hospital [Heidelberg] 14 days 1.1% 92 surgeries
2 Monash Medical Centre [Clayton] 17 days 0.7% 138 surgeries
3 Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus] 20 days 1.0% 203 surgeries
4 The Alfred 22 days 0.0% 205 surgeries
5 St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne] 34 days not published 18 surgeries
6 Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville] 46 days 1.5% 65 surgeries
unranked Dandenong Hospital not published not published not published
unranked South West Healthcare [Warrnambool] not published not published not published
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The median wait for brain surgery through the skull (craniotomy) in Victoria public hospitals was 20 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

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Surgery Waits, "Brain surgery through the skull (craniotomy) in VIC", 2024–25 data released 28 May 2026, https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/craniotomy/vic/, accessed 28 May 2026.

Attribution: Surgery Waits (https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/craniotomy/vic/), 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.

Waiting times differ across state borders, and a referral can cross one — read what that means. Compare with every other state, or see every surgery reported in Victoria.