Surgery Waits

Septoplasty waiting time at Albury Wodonga Health [Wodonga Campus]

The median wait for septoplasty at this public hospital in the Wodonga area of Victoria was 814 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
814 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
61 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
90.2%2024–25 · released 28 May 2026

Half the people who had this surgery here waited less than the median, and half waited longer. Of the 103 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 102 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 118 days in 2016–17 to 814 days in 2024–25 — up 590% — while the national median rose from 209 days to 320 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Northeast Health Wangaratta, about 56 km away, at 543 days. Here, 90.2% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 30.8%.

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.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Septoplasty, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Albury Wodonga Health [Wodonga Campus]814 days90.2%61 surgeries
Australian Capital Territory (all public hospitals)not publishednot published99 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)340 days26.6%1713 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)279 days41.1%1841 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)320 days30.8%5687 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

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

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

How the wait has changed

Median wait for septoplasty by financial year at Albury Wodonga Health [Wodonga Campus], compared with Victoria and Australiadays025050075010002011–122014–152017–182020–212023–242024–25Albury Wodonga Health [Wodonga Campus] 814VIC 279Australia 320
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Septoplasty, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodAlbury Wodonga Health [Wodonga Campus] (days)VIC (days)Australia (days)
2011–12not reported for this period101160
2012–13not reported for this period129197
2013–14not reported for this period138221
2014–15not reported for this period131214
2015–16not reported for this period123209
2016–1711889209
2017–18159112248
2018–19131125241
2019–20118137277
2020–2129264330
2021–22158196315
2022–23278449365
2023–24692377332
2024–25814279320

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

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