Parotidectomy/submandibular gland - excision of waiting time at Sunshine Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Parotidectomy/submandibular gland - excision of at this public hospital, with the nearest alternatives that published a figure.

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

Median wait: 112 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 12 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: not published2024–25 · released 28 May 2026 — Reported data did not meet the criteria to calculate this indicator.

Half the people who had this surgery here waited less than the median, and half waited longer. Of the 54 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 51 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Parotidectomy/submandibular gland - excision of, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Sunshine Hospital	112 days	not published	12 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	42 days	4.5%	514 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	45 days	4.1%	1742 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 45 days marks the national median.

Western Hospital [Footscray]VIC · about 7 km away92 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 13 km away52 days
Peter MacCallum Cancer CentreVIC · about 13 km away20 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 15 km away44 days
The AlfredVIC · about 17 km away26 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 20 km away177 days
Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]VIC · about 21 km away28 days
Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 27 km away37 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Parotidectomy/submandibular gland - excision of, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Sunshine Hospital (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not published	28	30
2017–18	not reported for this period	42	38
2018–19	not published	33	37
2019–20	not published	48	41
2020–21	not reported for this period	28	42
2021–22	not reported for this period	24	34
2022–23	not published	43	44
2023–24	108	40	43
2024–25	112	42	45

What is not here

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

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