Melbourne’s Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre has been named among the top 20 hospitals for cancer treatment in the world and the best in Australia.
The World’s Best Specialised Hospital Ranking [link here] by American magazine Newsweek and global data gathering firm Statista ranked the hospital known as ‘Peter Mac’ as 14th best.
The top three hospitals listed as the world’s best were all based in the US.
- MD Anderson Cancer Center, Texas
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York
- Mayo Clinic – Rochester, Minnesota
The next ‘best’ Australian oncology hospital to feature on the list was the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital in Brisbane, which sat just outside the top 100.
Australian hospitals to feature in the top 300 oncology services in the world:
- Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne (14)
- Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, Brisbane (105)
- Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney (148)
- Austin Hospital, Melbourne (150)
- Westmead Hospital, Sydney (194)
- The Alfred, Melbourne (287)
The rankings covered the best facilities across 12 different specialties.
These included the top 300 hospitals for cardiology and oncology, the top 250 for paediatrics, the top 150 in each specialty of cardiac surgery, endocrinology, and gastroenterology, the top 125 in each for neurology, neurosurgery, orthopaedics, pulmonology, and urology and the top 100 for obstetrics and gynecology.
The ranking was based on hospital recommendations from medical professionals, publicly available hospital quality metrics, patient experience data and a voluntary patient-reported outcome survey.
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