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Deviated septum surgery at Box Hill Hospital

Box Hill Hospital is a public hospital in the Box Hill area, Victoria. This page shows its waiting times for Deviated septum surgery in 2024–25, beside the figures for Victoria and for Australia.

The source publishes this surgery as "Septoplasty".

Figures for this hospital

Each tile shows one figure for Deviated septum surgery at Box Hill Hospital.

A rank compares this hospital with every public hospital in Australia that published the same figure for the same period. The page shows a rank only on a current published figure. It never ranks a withheld or unreported figure. It also never ranks a figure from an earlier period.

Median wait, Box Hill Hospital
910 days2024–25, released 19 August 2026

Rank103rd of 103 nationally

Change on the year before+12 days

Waiting more than 365 days, Box Hill Hospital
78.7%2024–25, released 19 August 2026

Rank44th of 47 nationally

Patients treated, Box Hill Hospital
75 surgeries2024–25, released 19 August 2026

Compared with the state and Australia

The state and national rows cover every public hospital that reported Deviated septum surgery. They are never ranked.

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Deviated septum surgery: Box Hill Hospital, Victoria and Australia2024–25, released 19 August 2026
Who the figures coverMedian waitWaiting more than 365 daysPatients treated
Box Hill Hospital910 days78.7%75 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)279 days41.1%1,841 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)320 days30.8%5,687 surgeries

Shorter waits nearby

Box Hill Hospital has 8 public hospitals on its list of nearby public hospitals. The open hospitals below come from that list, nearest first, and each published a shorter median wait for Deviated septum surgery than Box Hill Hospital did. Each distance is measured in a straight line.

  1. Blackburn Public Surgical Centre4 kilometres away690 days2024–25, released 19 August 2026
  2. Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]8 kilometres away534 days2024–25, released 19 August 2026
  3. Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]9 kilometres away557 days2024–25, released 19 August 2026

How this hospital's wait has changed

The median wait for Deviated septum surgery at Box Hill Hospital has risen from 661 days in 2011–12 to 910 days in 2024–25. The earlier figure is from 2011–12, released 19 August 2026, and the latest is from 2024–25, released 19 August 2026.

Each chart shows the median wait for each year the source published it. A year with no published figure is a gap in the line, and the table under the chart gives the reason.

Deviated septum surgery: median wait by financial year, Box Hill Hospital, Victoria and Australia2011–12 to 2024–25, released 19 August 2026
05001,0002012–132015–162018–192021–222024–25
  • Box Hill Hospital
  • Victoria
  • Australia
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Deviated septum surgery: median wait by financial year, Box Hill Hospital, Victoria and Australia2011–12 to 2024–25, released 19 August 2026
Financial yearBox Hill HospitalVictoriaAustralia
2011–12661 days101 days160 days
2012–13810 days129 days197 days
2013–14861 days138 days221 days
2014–15759 days131 days214 days
2015–16627 days123 days209 days
2016–17334 days89 days209 days
2017–18293 days112 days248 days
2018–19207 days125 days241 days
2019–20251 days137 days277 days
2020–21406 days264 days330 days
2021–22501 days196 days315 days
2022–23782 days449 days365 days
2023–24898 days377 days332 days
2024–25910 days279 days320 days

All planned surgery at Box Hill Hospital

Deviated septum surgery at every public hospital in Australia

Deviated septum surgery in Victoria

What this page leaves out

Private hospitals are excluded. This page covers public hospitals only, so it shows no private hospital.

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Where this data comes from

  • Dataset on publicdata.au
    Elective surgery waiting times by hospital and urgency category, Australia
    Publisher
    Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    Version
    3 October 2026
    Data released
    19 August 2026
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    How to cite this data
    Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australian Government, MyHospitals Data API, elective surgery waiting times data extract, sourced 3 October 2026, https://myhospitalsapi.aihw.gov.au/, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/au-elective-surgery-waiting-times/v/2026-10-03/
  • Dataset on publicdata.au
    Elective surgery waiting times by hospital and intended procedure, Australia
    Publisher
    Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    Version
    20 October 2026
    Data released
    19 August 2026
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    How to cite this data
    Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australian Government, MyHospitals Data API, elective surgery waiting times data extract, sourced 19 October 2026, https://myhospitalsapi.aihw.gov.au/, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/au-elective-surgery-waiting-times-by-procedure/v/2026-10-20/
  • Dataset on publicdata.au
    Elective surgery waiting times by hospital and surgical specialty, Australia
    Publisher
    Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    Version
    20 October 2026
    Data released
    19 August 2026
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    How to cite this data
    Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australian Government, MyHospitals Data API, elective surgery waiting times data extract, sourced 19 October 2026, https://myhospitalsapi.aihw.gov.au/, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/au-elective-surgery-waiting-times-by-specialty/v/2026-10-20/
  • Dataset on publicdata.au
    Hospitals, Local Hospital Networks and Primary Health Networks in MyHospitals, Australia
    Publisher
    Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    Version
    3 October 2026
    Data released
    19 August 2026
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    How to cite this data
    Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australian Government, MyHospitals Data API, mapping details extract, sourced 3 October 2026, https://myhospitalsapi.aihw.gov.au/, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/au-hospitals-myhospitals/v/2026-10-03/
  • Dataset on publicdata.au
    Reported measures and their codes in MyHospitals, Australia
    Publisher
    Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    Version
    27 October 2026
    Data released
    The publisher gives no release date for this dataset.
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    How to cite this data
    Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australian Government, MyHospitals Data API, reported measures, sourced 26 October 2026, https://myhospitalsapi.aihw.gov.au/, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/au-myhospitals-reported-measures/v/2026-10-27/
  • Dataset on publicdata.au
    Reporting unit mappings to health networks and states in MyHospitals, Australia
    Publisher
    Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    Version
    27 October 2026
    Data released
    The publisher gives no release date for this dataset.
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    How to cite this data
    Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australian Government, MyHospitals Data API, reporting units, sourced 26 October 2026, https://myhospitalsapi.aihw.gov.au/, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/au-myhospitals-reporting-unit-mappings/v/2026-10-27/
  • Dataset on publicdata.au
    Reporting unit codes and alternative names in MyHospitals, Australia
    Publisher
    Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    Version
    27 October 2026
    Data released
    The publisher gives no release date for this dataset.
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    How to cite this data
    Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australian Government, MyHospitals Data API, reporting units, sourced 26 October 2026, https://myhospitalsapi.aihw.gov.au/, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/au-myhospitals-reporting-units/v/2026-10-27/