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Deviated septum surgery waiting times in Victoria

The median wait for deviated septum surgery in Victoria public hospitals was 279 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The national median was 320 days. The source publishes this surgery as "Septoplasty".

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

29 public hospitals in Victoria reported deviated septum surgery in 2024–25. They are ranked by their published median wait alone, shortest first.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Septoplasty" and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.

4 hospitals have no published median wait for this surgery in this period. They are listed last, marked "not published", and are never ranked.

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 320 days marks the national median.

Septoplasty in Victoria public hospitals, 2024–25. Hospitals with the same median share a rank and the next rank is skipped. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Rank Hospital Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
1 Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital] 16 days not published 10 surgeries
2 St Vincent's On the Park 66 days 1.3% 77 surgeries
3 The Alfred 100 days 0.0% 86 surgeries
4 The Northern Hospital [Epping] 102 days 1.0% 99 surgeries
5 West Gippsland Healthcare Group [Warragul] 139 days not published 19 surgeries
6 Casey Hospital 153 days 22.1% 104 surgeries
7 Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville] 165 days not published 40 surgeries
8 The Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital 170 days 22.0% 50 surgeries
9 University Hospital Geelong 189 days not published 25 surgeries
10 Goulburn Valley Health [Shepparton] 191 days not published 22 surgeries
11 Williamstown Hospital 203 days not published 44 surgeries
12 Monash Medical Centre [Clayton] 208 days not published 36 surgeries
13 Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin] 218 days 30.9% 327 surgeries
14 Frankston Public Surgical Centre 244 days not published 25 surgeries
15 St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne] 245 days 18.5% 92 surgeries
16 Frankston Hospital 258 days not published 21 surgeries
17 Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus] 288 days 34.1% 88 surgeries
18 Sunshine Hospital 411 days not published 46 surgeries
19 Latrobe Regional Hospital [Traralgon] 446 days not published 15 surgeries
20 Austin Hospital [Heidelberg] 534 days 75.6% 78 surgeries
21 Northeast Health Wangaratta 543 days not published 24 surgeries
22 Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West] 557 days 83.6% 262 surgeries
23 Blackburn Public Surgical Centre 690 days 78.7% 94 surgeries
24 Albury Wodonga Health [Wodonga Campus] 814 days 90.2% 61 surgeries
25 Box Hill Hospital 910 days 78.7% 75 surgeries
unranked Angliss Hospital not published not published 6 surgeries
unranked Djerriwarrh Health Service [Bacchus Marsh] not published not published 6 surgeries
unranked South West Healthcare [Warrnambool] not published not published 5 surgeries
unranked Western Hospital [Footscray] not published not published not published

Ranked by area in Victoria: near Box Hill · near Clayton · near Fitzroy · near Frankston · near Heidelberg · near St Albans.

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The median wait for deviated septum surgery in Victoria public hospitals was 279 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

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Surgery Waits, "Deviated septum surgery waiting times in Victoria", 2024–25 data released 28 May 2026, https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/septoplasty/vic/, accessed 28 May 2026.

Attribution: Surgery Waits (https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/septoplasty/vic/), from Australian Institute of Health and Welfare MyHospitals data, CC BY 3.0 AU. Reference period 2024–25, released 28 May 2026.

What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

Waiting times differ across state borders, and a referral can cross one — read what that means. Compare with every other state, or see every surgery reported in Victoria.