Patients treated (overall)
When a patient in Victoria is assessed by a surgeon as requiring planned surgery, they are categorised as urgent (Category 1: treatment recommended within 30 days), semi-urgent (Category 2: treatment recommended within 90 days) or non-urgent (Category 3: treatment recommended within 12 months). They are then placed on a hospital-based wait list.
Tap the buttons below for specific patient data about planned surgery across Victoria. You can filter by hospital.
Scroll further down for more information about the data (measures).
About the data:
The above measures look at:
- planned surgery waiting lists
- waiting time
- hospital-initiated postponements.
About the planned surgery waiting list
The above measures show patients admitted and those removed from the planned surgery wait list without treatment for all urgency categories: Urgent (Category 1: treatment recommended within 30 days), semi-urgent (Category 2: treatment recommended within 90 days) or non-urgent (Category 3: treatment recommended within 12 months).
Patients are removed from the list without treatment for a range of reasons including, but not limited to, death, failure to attend for admission, or surgery no longer required.
About waiting time
Waiting time is the period between the date the patient was listed for the planned surgery procedure and the date they were admitted to hospital for surgery (excluding any days the patient was not ready for surgery).
The 90th percentile time to treatment is the time within which 90% of patients are admitted for surgery.
Data are also shown for the percentage of patients who waited longer than 365 days for planned surgery in any urgency category.
About hospital-initiated postponements
The number of times a hospital initiates a postponement of a patient's scheduled planned surgery, per 100 scheduled admissions.
Sometimes hospitals need to postpone planned surgery. This is because demand for emergency services is unpredictable and patients who attend hospitals with life threatening illnesses take priority over patients needing planned surgery.
Notes
- Data source: Elective Surgery Information System (ESIS). Data extracted on 16 April 2026.
- Planned surgery data includes:
- Bass Coast Health which commenced planned surgery reporting from 2024–25.
- Colac Area Health, Kilmore District Hospital (campus of Northern Health) and Horsham and Stawell (both campuses under Grampians Health) which commenced reporting in 2025–26.
- Cranbourne Community Hospital (a campus of Monash Health) which commenced operations and reporting from 6 October 2025.
- Care needs to be taken when assessing results and comparing them to prior periods.
- Grampians Health planned admissions data prior to 1 January 2026 are not available at the campus level.
- Hospital-initiated postponements reported for Grampians Health exclude Horsham and Stawell campuses. However, the results do include a small number of patients who were originally scheduled for Ballarat and later moved to the Horsham or Stawell campuses.
- Wodonga Hospital's campus-level planned surgery results include data from Albury Hospital.
- Results for the current financial year are preliminary and may change from quarter to quarter. Final results will be available in November. Results from the previous financial year have been finalised.
- * No results are available.