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Glaucoma drainage surgery waiting times in Victoria

The median wait for glaucoma drainage surgery in Victoria public hospitals was 20 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The national median was 32 days. The source publishes this surgery as "Trabeculectomy".

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

8 public hospitals in Victoria reported glaucoma drainage surgery in 2024–25. They are ranked by their published median wait alone, shortest first.

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

5 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 32 days marks the national median.

Trabeculectomy 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 The Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital 17 days 0.0% 103 surgeries
2 The Alfred 23 days not published 19 surgeries
3 Cranbourne Integrated Care Centre 37 days not published 12 surgeries
unranked Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital] not published not published 5 surgeries
unranked Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West] not published not published not published
unranked Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville] not published not published 8 surgeries
unranked The Bendigo Hospital not published not published not published
unranked University Hospital Geelong not published not published 5 surgeries
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The median wait for glaucoma drainage surgery in Victoria public hospitals was 20 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

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

Attribution: Surgery Waits (https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/trabeculectomy/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.