Surgery Waits

Trabeculectomy waiting time at The Alfred

The median wait for trabeculectomy at this public hospital in the South Yarra area of Victoria was 23 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
23 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
19 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 19 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 4 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 28 days in 2016–17 to 23 days in 2024–25 — down 18% — while the national median rose from 21 days to 32 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is The Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital, about 4 km away, at 17 days.

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.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Trabeculectomy, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
The Alfred23 daysnot published19 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)54 days0.0%303 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)not publishednot published66 surgeries
Tasmania (all public hospitals)not publishednot published52 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)20 days0.0%156 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)32 days0.1%716 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 32 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 trabeculectomy by financial year at The Alfred, compared with Victoria and Australiadays0193856752016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25The Alfred 23VIC 20Australia 32
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Trabeculectomy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodThe Alfred (days)VIC (days)Australia (days)
2016–17281321
2017–18531424
2018–19281727
2019–2061524
2020–21221121
2021–22161221
2022–23131928
2023–2471429
2024–25232032

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

All surgery at The Alfred · Trabeculectomy across Australia · Trabeculectomy in Victoria