Surgery Waits

Category 3 (non-urgent) waiting times in Victoria

Of the 46 public hospitals that published a figure for 2024–25, the share treated on time ranged from 100% at Bass Coast Health down to 58% at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released

Category 3 (non-urgent) means surgery is recommended within 365 days of being placed on the waiting list. Surgery for a condition causing minimal pain, dysfunction or disability, and unlikely to deteriorate quickly. The table ranks Victoria's public hospitals by the share of non-urgent patients treated within that time in 2024–25.

Urgency figures cover all planned surgery at the hospital, not one procedure. They are never combined with the procedure figures.

Category 3 (non-urgent) planned surgery at Victoria public hospitals, 2024–25, ranked by the share treated within the recommended time — highest first. Hospitals with the same figure share a rank; a hospital with no published figure is listed unranked. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Rank Hospital Treated on time Median wait Surgeries
1 Bass Coast Health 100% 31 days 922 surgeries
1 Healesville Hospital and Yarra Valley Health 100% 42 days 41 surgeries
1 South West Healthcare [Camperdown] 100% 107 days 73 surgeries
1 Sunbury Day Hospital 100% 174 days 719 surgeries
1 The Kilmore & District Hospital 100% 34 days 17 surgeries
6 Broadmeadows Health Service 99% 105 days 1585 surgeries
6 Cranbourne Integrated Care Centre 99% 146 days 2293 surgeries
6 Sandringham Monash 99% 224 days 108 surgeries
6 Yarra Ranges Health 99% 121 days 1214 surgeries
10 The Alfred 98% 62 days 2531 surgeries
10 The Northern Hospital [Epping] 98% 65 days 1844 surgeries
10 University Hospital Geelong 98% 56 days 3189 surgeries
13 Frankston Public Surgical Centre 97% 63 days 1105 surgeries
13 St Vincent's On the Park 97% 46 days 465 surgeries
15 Sandringham Hospital 96% 99 days 465 surgeries
16 Angliss Hospital 95% 133 days 262 surgeries
17 West Gippsland Healthcare Group [Warragul] 94% 86 days 1069 surgeries
18 Northeast Health Wangaratta 93% 99 days 954 surgeries
18 South West Healthcare [Warrnambool] 93% 127 days 822 surgeries
20 The Bendigo Hospital 91% 154 days 1211 surgeries
21 Williamstown Hospital 90% 106 days 655 surgeries
22 Goulburn Valley Health [Shepparton] 89% 63 days 491 surgeries
22 The Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital 89% 65 days 4948 surgeries
24 Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital] 86% 46 days 737 surgeries
24 Blackburn Public Surgical Centre 86% 94 days 593 surgeries
24 Djerriwarrh Health Service [Bacchus Marsh] 86% 80 days 101 surgeries
27 Maroondah Hospital [East Ringwood] 85% 111 days 286 surgeries
28 St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne] 84% 90 days 1090 surgeries
29 Frankston Hospital 83% 101 days 734 surgeries
29 Monash Medical Centre [Clayton] 83% 141 days 508 surgeries
31 Latrobe Regional Hospital [Traralgon] 82% 59 days 2045 surgeries
31 Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus] 82% 165 days 1346 surgeries
33 Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West] 81% 112 days 2725 surgeries
33 Royal Women's Hospital [Parkville] 81% 131 days 511 surgeries
35 Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin] 80% 122 days 1622 surgeries
36 Box Hill Hospital 79% 113 days 947 surgeries
36 Casey Hospital 79% 183 days 679 surgeries
38 Western Hospital [Footscray] 76% 204 days 212 surgeries
39 Sunshine Hospital 74% 157 days 1032 surgeries
40 Austin Hospital [Heidelberg] 69% 168 days 530 surgeries
40 Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville] 69% 241 days 2120 surgeries
42 Werribee Mercy Hospital 68% 206 days 332 surgeries
43 Albury Wodonga Health [Wodonga Campus] 64% 305 days 2399 surgeries
43 Mercy Hospital for Women 64% 260 days 414 surgeries
45 Dandenong Hospital 61% 315 days 340 surgeries
46 Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre 58% 259 days 170 surgeries
unranked Victorian Heart Hospital not published not published 5 surgeries

What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

Compare with every state's hospitals, see Victoria's waiting times by surgery, or start from what the urgency categories mean.