Surgery Waits

Corneal graft waiting time at Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]

The median wait for corneal graft at this public hospital in the Carlton area of Victoria was 116 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
116 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
12 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 13 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 10 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is The Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital, about 2 km away, at 67 days.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Corneal graft" 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 Corneal graft, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]116 daysnot published12 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)not publishednot published50 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)not publishednot published46 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)96 days5.5%398 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 96 days marks the national median.

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.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for corneal graft by financial year at Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus], compared with Victoria and Australiadays03163941252016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus] 116VIC 56Australia 96
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Corneal graft, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodRoyal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus] (days)VIC (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not publishednot published70
2017–18not published5579
2018–19not published6778
2019–20not published5677
2020–21not published4673
2021–22not published7283
2022–23not published5683
2023–24not publishednot published103
2024–25116not published96

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

All surgery at Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus] · Corneal graft across Australia · Corneal graft in Victoria