Turbinectomy waiting time at The Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital

The median wait for turbinectomy at this public hospital in the East Melbourne area of Victoria was 195 days in 2024–25.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026

These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.

Median wait: 195 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 40 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 24 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 8 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 35 days in 2016–17 to 195 days in 2024–25 — up 457% — while the national median rose from 100 days to 269 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus], about 2 km away, at 159 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Turbinectomy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
The Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital	195 days	not published	40 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	157 days	28.2%	393 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	269 days	23.6%	932 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 269 days marks the national median.

Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 2 km away159 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 9 km away369 days
Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 13 km away388 days
Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin]VIC · about 15 km away355 days
Monash Medical Centre [Clayton]VIC · about 21 km away70 days
Angliss HospitalVIC · about 31 km away241 days
Casey HospitalVIC · about 42 km away97 days
Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital]VIC · about 103 km away45 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Turbinectomy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	The Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	35	64	100
2017–18	27	87	172
2018–19	50	79	140
2019–20	54	97	168
2020–21	114	159	274
2021–22	119	133	266
2022–23	36	245	313
2023–24	87	247	286
2024–25	195	157	269

Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.

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