Surgery Waits

Salivary gland removal waiting time at The Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital

The median wait for salivary gland removal at The Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital in 2024–25 is not published by the source (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Parotidectomy/submandibular gland - excision of". This public hospital is in the East Melbourne area of Victoria.

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

The source did not publish a median wait for this surgery at this hospital in 2024–25. Reported data did not meet the criteria to calculate this indicator. The hospital is shown here unranked rather than ranked on a number that does not exist.

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

Median wait
not published2024–25 · released 28 May 2026 — Reported data did not meet the criteria to calculate this indicator.
Surgeries completed
not published2024–25 · released 28 May 2026 — too few
Waited more than 365 days
not published2024–25 · released 28 May 2026 — Reported data did not meet the criteria to calculate this indicator.

This hospital is not ranked for this surgery.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Parotidectomy/submandibular gland - excision of, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
The Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospitalnot publishednot publishednot published
Victoria (all public hospitals)42 days4.5%514 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)45 days4.1%1742 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

The Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital did not publish a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, so there is no list of nearer alternatives to compare it against.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for parotidectomy/submandibular gland - excision of by financial year at The Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital, compared with Victoria and Australiadays0132538502016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25VIC 42Australia 45
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Median wait in days for Parotidectomy/submandibular gland - excision of, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodThe Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital (days)VIC (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not published2830
2017–18not published4238
2018–19not published3337
2019–20not reported for this period4841
2020–21not published2842
2021–22not reported for this period2434
2022–23not published4344
2023–24not published4043
2024–25not published4245

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

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