The Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital surgery waiting times
In 2024–25, this public hospital in the East Melbourne area of Victoria published median waits from 4 days for muscle biopsy/temporal artery biopsy to 723 days for rhinoplasty.
Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released
The Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital is a public hospital in the East Melbourne area of Victoria. It is part of Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital. 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.
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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. What the categories mean, and how every hospital compares.
| 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 |
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In 2024–25, The Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital published median planned-surgery waits from 4 days for muscle biopsy/temporal artery biopsy to 723 days for rhinoplasty.
Copy-ready citation
Surgery Waits, "The Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital waiting list", 2024–25 data released 28 May 2026, https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/the-royal-victorian-eye-ear-hospital/, accessed 28 May 2026.Attribution: Surgery Waits (https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/the-royal-victorian-eye-ear-hospital/), from Australian Institute of Health and Welfare MyHospitals data, CC BY 3.0 AU. Reference period 2024–25, released 28 May 2026.
What is not here
Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.