Stapedectomy waiting time at The Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital
Half of patients at The Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital waited 119 days or less for stapedectomy in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). 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.
These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.
- Median wait
- 119 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 4 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 1 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has fallen from 195 days in 2016–17 to 119 days in 2024–25 — down 39% — while the national median rose from 212 days to 357 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.
Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Stapedectomy" and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.
How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital | 119 days | not published | 13 surgeries |
| New South Wales (all public hospitals) | not published | not published | 52 surgeries |
| Victoria (all public hospitals) | not published | not published | 40 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 357 days | 47.2% | 144 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 357 days marks the national median.
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West], VIC · about 9 km away: 553 days
Liverpool Hospital, NSW · about 689 km away: 343 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst], NSW · about 712 km away: 350 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 1000 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.
Some of these hospitals are in another state — a public hospital referral can cross the border, so ask your GP what that would mean for you. See also where crossing a border cuts the wait most.
How the wait has changed
- The Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital
- VIC
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | The Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital (days) | VIC (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 195 | not published | 212 |
| 2017–18 | 318 | not published | 284 |
| 2018–19 | 229 | not published | 285 |
| 2019–20 | 146 | not published | 275 |
| 2020–21 | 531 | not published | 366 |
| 2021–22 | 77 | not published | 332 |
| 2022–23 | 394 | not published | 392 |
| 2023–24 | 408 | not published | 354 |
| 2024–25 | 119 | not published | 357 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
All surgery at The Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital · Stapedectomy across Australia · Stapedectomy in Victoria · All surgery waits in Victoria