Keyhole sinus surgery at The Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital
The Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital is a public hospital in the East Melbourne area, Victoria. This page shows its waiting times for Keyhole sinus surgery in 2024–25, beside the figures for Victoria and for Australia.
The source publishes this surgery as "Functional endoscopic sinus surgery".
Figures for this hospital
Each tile shows one figure for Keyhole sinus surgery at The Royal Victorian Eye & Ear 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, The Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital
- 82 days2024–25, released 19 August 2026
Rank7th of 64 nationally
Change on the year before+36 days
- Waiting more than 365 days, The Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital
- not published: the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare did not publish a figure2024–25, released 19 August 2026
- Patients treated, The Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital
- 28 surgeries2024–25, released 19 August 2026
Compared with the state and Australia
The state and national rows cover every public hospital that reported Keyhole sinus surgery. They are never ranked.
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| Who the figures cover | Median wait | Waiting more than 365 days | Patients treated |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital | 82 days | not published: the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare did not publish a figure | 28 surgeries |
| Victoria (all public hospitals) | 140 days | 24.1% | 967 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 214 days | 22.7% | 2,508 surgeries |
Shorter waits nearby
The Royal Victorian Eye & Ear 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 Keyhole sinus surgery than The Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital did. Each distance is measured in a straight line.
- St Vincent's On the Parkless than 1 kilometre away75 days2024–25, released 19 August 2026
How this hospital's wait has changed
The median wait for Keyhole sinus surgery at The Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital has risen from 39 days in 2016–17 to 82 days in 2024–25. The earlier figure is from 2016–17, released 19 August 2026, and the latest is from 2024–25, released 19 August 2026.
How the wait has changed
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.
- The Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital
- Victoria
- Australia
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| Financial year | The Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital | Victoria | Australia |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 39 days | 63 days | 111 days |
| 2017–18 | 42 days | 81 days | 119 days |
| 2018–19 | 47 days | 93 days | 139 days |
| 2019–20 | 50 days | 103 days | 127 days |
| 2020–21 | 68 days | 167 days | 217 days |
| 2021–22 | 56 days | 84 days | 154 days |
| 2022–23 | 76 days | 238 days | 292 days |
| 2023–24 | 46 days | 265 days | 274 days |
| 2024–25 | 82 days | 140 days | 214 days |
More on this page's subjects
All planned surgery at The Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital
What this page leaves out
Private hospitals are excluded. This page covers public hospitals only, so it shows no private hospital.
Before you use these figures
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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/