Vitrectomy (including buckling/cryotherapy) waiting time at Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville]
The median wait for vitrectomy (including buckling/cryotherapy) at this public hospital in the North Melbourne area of Victoria was 29 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
- 29 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 11 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 25 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 12 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has risen from 27 days in 2023–24 to 29 days in 2024–25 — up 7% — while the national median rose from 22 days to 26 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is The Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital, about 3 km away, at 14 days.
Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Vitrectomy (including buckling/cryotherapy)" and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.
How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville] | 29 days | not published | 11 surgeries |
| Victoria (all public hospitals) | 20 days | 1.5% | 1241 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 26 days | 2.6% | 3742 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
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 reported for this period | 13 | 19 |
| 2017–18 | not reported for this period | 16 | 21 |
| 2018–19 | not reported for this period | 16 | 22 |
| 2019–20 | not published | 13 | 21 |
| 2020–21 | not published | 12 | 19 |
| 2021–22 | not published | 14 | 18 |
| 2022–23 | not published | 18 | 24 |
| 2023–24 | 27 | 18 | 22 |
| 2024–25 | 29 | 20 | 26 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
All surgery at Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville] · Vitrectomy (including buckling/cryotherapy) across Australia · Vitrectomy (including buckling/cryotherapy) in Victoria