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Pleurodesis at Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]

Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus] is a public hospital in the Carlton area, Victoria. This page shows its waiting times for Pleurodesis in 2024–25, beside the figures for Victoria and for Australia.

Figures for this hospital

Each tile shows one figure for Pleurodesis at Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus].

A rank compares this hospital with every public hospital in Australia that published the same figure for the same period. The page shows a rank only on a current published figure. It never ranks a withheld or unreported figure. It also never ranks a figure from an earlier period.

Median wait, Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]
6 days2024–25, released 19 August 2026

Rank1st of 6 nationally

Change on the year before+2 days

Waiting more than 365 days, Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]
not published: the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare did not publish a figure2024–25, released 19 August 2026
Patients treated, Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]
18 surgeries2024–25, released 19 August 2026

Compared with the state and Australia

The state and national rows cover every public hospital that reported Pleurodesis. They are never ranked.

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Pleurodesis: Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus], Victoria and Australia2024–25, released 19 August 2026
Who the figures coverMedian waitWaiting more than 365 daysPatients treated
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]6 daysnot published: the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare did not publish a figure18 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)not published: the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare did not publish a figurenot published: the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare did not publish a figure66 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)10 days0.0%150 surgeries

Shorter waits nearby

Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus] has 8 public hospitals on its list of nearby public hospitals. No hospital on that list published a shorter median wait for Pleurodesis in 2024–25.

How this hospital's wait has changed

The median wait for Pleurodesis at Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus] was 6 days in 2017–18 and is 6 days in 2024–25, so it has not changed. The earlier figure is from 2017–18, released 19 August 2026, and the latest is from 2024–25, released 19 August 2026.

Each chart shows the median wait for each year the source published it. A year with no published figure is a gap in the line, and the table under the chart gives the reason.

Pleurodesis: median wait by financial year, Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus], Victoria and Australia2016–17 to 2024–25, released 19 August 2026
05102016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25
  • Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]
  • Victoria
  • Australia
  • No figure published for this year. The table gives the reason.
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Pleurodesis: median wait by financial year, Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus], Victoria and Australia2016–17 to 2024–25, released 19 August 2026
Financial yearRoyal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VictoriaAustralia
2016–17not published: the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare did not publish a figurenot published: the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare did not publish a figure8 days
2017–186 days10 days10 days
2018–19not published: the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare did not publish a figure8 days8 days
2019–205 daysnot published: the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare did not publish a figure9 days
2020–215 daysnot published: the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare did not publish a figure7 days
2021–229 daysnot published: the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare did not publish a figure10 days
2022–234 daysnot published: the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare did not publish a figure8 days
2023–244 daysnot published: the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare did not publish a figure10 days
2024–256 daysnot published: the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare did not publish a figure10 days

All planned surgery at Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]

Pleurodesis at every public hospital in Australia

Pleurodesis in Victoria

What this page leaves out

Private hospitals are excluded. This page covers public hospitals only, so it shows no private hospital.

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Where this data comes from

  • Dataset on publicdata.au
    Elective surgery waiting times by hospital and urgency category, Australia
    Publisher
    Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    Version
    3 October 2026
    Data released
    19 August 2026
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    How to cite this data
    Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australian Government, MyHospitals Data API, elective surgery waiting times data extract, sourced 3 October 2026, https://myhospitalsapi.aihw.gov.au/, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/au-elective-surgery-waiting-times/v/2026-10-03/
  • Dataset on publicdata.au
    Elective surgery waiting times by hospital and intended procedure, Australia
    Publisher
    Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    Version
    20 October 2026
    Data released
    19 August 2026
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    How to cite this data
    Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australian Government, MyHospitals Data API, elective surgery waiting times data extract, sourced 19 October 2026, https://myhospitalsapi.aihw.gov.au/, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/au-elective-surgery-waiting-times-by-procedure/v/2026-10-20/
  • Dataset on publicdata.au
    Elective surgery waiting times by hospital and surgical specialty, Australia
    Publisher
    Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    Version
    20 October 2026
    Data released
    19 August 2026
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    How to cite this data
    Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australian Government, MyHospitals Data API, elective surgery waiting times data extract, sourced 19 October 2026, https://myhospitalsapi.aihw.gov.au/, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/au-elective-surgery-waiting-times-by-specialty/v/2026-10-20/
  • Dataset on publicdata.au
    Hospitals, Local Hospital Networks and Primary Health Networks in MyHospitals, Australia
    Publisher
    Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    Version
    3 October 2026
    Data released
    19 August 2026
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    How to cite this data
    Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australian Government, MyHospitals Data API, mapping details extract, sourced 3 October 2026, https://myhospitalsapi.aihw.gov.au/, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/au-hospitals-myhospitals/v/2026-10-03/
  • Dataset on publicdata.au
    Reported measures and their codes in MyHospitals, Australia
    Publisher
    Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    Version
    27 October 2026
    Data released
    The publisher gives no release date for this dataset.
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    How to cite this data
    Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australian Government, MyHospitals Data API, reported measures, sourced 26 October 2026, https://myhospitalsapi.aihw.gov.au/, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/au-myhospitals-reported-measures/v/2026-10-27/
  • Dataset on publicdata.au
    Reporting unit mappings to health networks and states in MyHospitals, Australia
    Publisher
    Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    Version
    27 October 2026
    Data released
    The publisher gives no release date for this dataset.
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    How to cite this data
    Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australian Government, MyHospitals Data API, reporting units, sourced 26 October 2026, https://myhospitalsapi.aihw.gov.au/, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/au-myhospitals-reporting-unit-mappings/v/2026-10-27/
  • Dataset on publicdata.au
    Reporting unit codes and alternative names in MyHospitals, Australia
    Publisher
    Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    Version
    27 October 2026
    Data released
    The publisher gives no release date for this dataset.
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    How to cite this data
    Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australian Government, MyHospitals Data API, reporting units, sourced 26 October 2026, https://myhospitalsapi.aihw.gov.au/, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/au-myhospitals-reporting-units/v/2026-10-27/