Surgery Waits

Microlaryngoscopy waiting time at The Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital

The median wait for microlaryngoscopy at this public hospital in the East Melbourne area of Victoria was 20 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
20 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
10 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 44 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 14 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 21 days in 2019–20 to 20 days in 2024–25 — down 5% — while the national median rose from 22 days to 26 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, about 2 km away, at 6 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Microlaryngoscopy, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
The Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital20 daysnot published10 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)19 days4.6%439 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)26 days3.3%1915 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 26 days marks the national median.

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for microlaryngoscopy by financial year at The Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital, compared with Victoria and Australiadays0193856752016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25The Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital 20VIC 19Australia 26
  • The Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Microlaryngoscopy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodThe Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital (days)VIC (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not reported for this period2224
2017–18not reported for this period2223
2018–19not reported for this period1925
2019–20211722
2020–21531823
2021–22461521
2022–23271622
2023–24281926
2024–25201926

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

All surgery at The Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital · Microlaryngoscopy across Australia · Microlaryngoscopy in Victoria