Surgery Waits

Spinal disc removal waiting times in Victoria

The median wait for spinal disc removal in Victoria public hospitals was 29 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The national median was 41 days. The source publishes this surgery as "Discectomy".

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

8 public hospitals in Victoria reported spinal disc removal in 2024–25. They are ranked by their published median wait alone, shortest first.

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

3 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 41 days marks the national median.

Discectomy 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 Monash Medical Centre [Clayton] 21 days 0.0% 59 surgeries
2 Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus] 30 days 1.2% 85 surgeries
3 The Alfred 32 days 0.0% 50 surgeries
4 Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West] 39 days not published 18 surgeries
5 Austin Hospital [Heidelberg] 41 days not published 45 surgeries
unranked Northeast Health Wangaratta not published not published not published
unranked Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville] not published not published not published
unranked Western Hospital [Footscray] not published not published 5 surgeries

Ranked by area in Victoria: near Heidelberg.

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The median wait for spinal disc removal in Victoria public hospitals was 29 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

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Surgery Waits, "Spinal disc removal waiting times in Victoria", 2024–25 data released 28 May 2026, https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/discectomy/vic/, accessed 28 May 2026.

Attribution: Surgery Waits (https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/discectomy/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.