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 5 surgery types to the national planned-surgery collection for 2024–25.
Waiting times by surgery
Shortest median wait first. A surgery the source did not publish a figure for is listed last and is never ranked.
| Surgery | Median wait | Surgeries | Waited more than 365 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| Myringotomy | 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% |
| Septoplasty | 170 days | 50 surgeries | 22.0% |
| Myringoplasty/tympanoplasty | 320 days | 74 surgeries | 48.6% |
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.