Surgery Waits

Functional endoscopic sinus surgery waiting time at Goulburn Valley Health [Shepparton]

The median wait for functional endoscopic sinus surgery at this public hospital in the Shepparton area of Victoria was 257 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
257 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
13 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 64 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 40 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 133 days in 2022–23 to 257 days in 2024–25 — up 93% — while the national median fell from 292 days to 214 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is The Northern Hospital [Epping], about 148 km away, at 87 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Functional endoscopic sinus surgery, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Goulburn Valley Health [Shepparton]257 daysnot published13 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)140 days24.1%967 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)214 days22.7%2508 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 214 days marks the national median.

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

How the wait has changed

Median wait for functional endoscopic sinus surgery by financial year at Goulburn Valley Health [Shepparton], compared with Victoria and Australiadays0751502253002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Goulburn Valley Health [Shepparton] 257VIC 140Australia 214
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Functional endoscopic sinus surgery, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodGoulburn Valley Health [Shepparton] (days)VIC (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not reported for this period63111
2017–18not reported for this period81119
2018–19not reported for this period93139
2019–20not published103127
2020–21not published167217
2021–22not published84154
2022–23133238292
2023–24175265274
2024–25257140214

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

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