The Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital surgery waiting times
Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026
The Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital is a public hospital in Victoria. It reported 25 surgery types to the national planned-surgery collection for 2024–25. 3 surgery types were last reported in an earlier period; they are listed below, with the period the source last carried them.
Waiting times by surgery
Shortest median wait first. A surgery the source did not publish a figure for is listed after those, and a surgery it did not report at all this period is listed last. Neither is ranked, and neither shows an older figure in place of a current one.
| Surgery | Median wait | Surgeries | Waited more than 365 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| Muscle biopsy/temporal artery biopsy | 4 days | 129 surgeries | 0.0% |
| Vitrectomy (including buckling/cryotherapy) | 14 days | 666 surgeries | 0.5% |
| Trabeculectomy | 17 days | 103 surgeries | 0.0% |
| Microlaryngoscopy | 20 days | 10 surgeries | not published |
| Skin lesion - excision of | 35 days | 17 surgeries | not published |
| Ectropion - correction of | 37 days | 26 surgeries | not published |
| Myringotomy | 40 days | 119 surgeries | 11.8% |
| Myringotomy (without insertion of grommets) | 40 days | 119 surgeries | 11.8% |
| Cataract extraction (with or without intra-ocular lens insertion) | 48 days | 5067 surgeries | 5.2% |
| Tonsillectomy (with or without adenoidectomy) | 51 days | 459 surgeries | 14.4% |
| Corneal graft | 67 days | 25 surgeries | not published |
| Pterygium - excision of | 77 days | 138 surgeries | 5.8% |
| Procedure for strabismus (squint repair) | 81 days | 32 surgeries | not published |
| Functional endoscopic sinus surgery | 82 days | 28 surgeries | not published |
| Stapedectomy | 119 days | 13 surgeries | not published |
| Blepharoplasty | 121 days | 37 surgeries | not published |
| Adenoidectomy | 124 days | 23 surgeries | not published |
| Mastoidectomy | 127 days | 38 surgeries | not published |
| Septoplasty | 170 days | 50 surgeries | 22.0% |
| Turbinectomy | 195 days | 40 surgeries | not published |
| Myringoplasty/tympanoplasty | 320 days | 74 surgeries | 48.6% |
| Rhinoplasty | 723 days | 10 surgeries | not published |
| Cleft lip and palate - repair of | not published | not published | not published |
| Ethmoidectomy | not published | not published | not published |
| Parotidectomy/submandibular gland - excision of | not published | not published | not published |
| Laryngectomy last reported 2016–17 | not reported for this period | not reported for this period | not reported for this period |
| Lingual or maxillary frenulum surgery last reported 2023–24 | not reported for this period | not reported for this period | not reported for this period |
| Radical neck dissection last reported 2018–19 | not reported for this period | not reported for this period | not reported for this period |
Urgency categories
Urgency figures cover all planned surgery at the hospital, not one procedure. They are never combined with the procedure figures. Your treating specialist assigns your urgency category — it is not something you choose.
| Urgency category | Median wait | Treated within the recommended time | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Urgent | 8 days | 100% | 2080 surgeries |
| Semi-urgent | 51 days | 69% | 3592 surgeries |
| Non-urgent | 65 days | 89% | 4948 surgeries |
What is not here
Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.