Ptosis - repair of waiting time at Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville]
The median wait for ptosis - repair of at this public hospital in the North Melbourne area of Victoria was 779 days in 2024–25.
Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released
These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.
- Median wait
- 779 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 27 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 30 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 30 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has risen from 442 days in 2017–18 to 779 days in 2024–25 — up 76% — while the national median rose from 175 days to 238 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is The Alfred, about 6 km away, at 104 days.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville] | 779 days | not published | 27 surgeries |
| New South Wales (all public hospitals) | 348 days | 36.0% | 242 surgeries |
| South Australia (all public hospitals) | not published | not published | 46 surgeries |
| Victoria (all public hospitals) | not published | not published | 75 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 238 days | 25.4% | 781 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 1000 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.
Some of these hospitals are in another state — a public hospital referral can cross the border, so ask your GP what that would mean for you.
How the wait has changed
- Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville]
- VIC
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville] (days) | VIC (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | not published | not published | 141 |
| 2017–18 | 442 | not published | 175 |
| 2018–19 | 406 | not published | 181 |
| 2019–20 | 385 | not published | 245 |
| 2020–21 | 331 | not published | 303 |
| 2021–22 | 195 | not published | 263 |
| 2022–23 | 641 | not published | 251 |
| 2023–24 | 522 | not published | 240 |
| 2024–25 | 779 | not published | 238 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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