Patients treated by urgency category (1,2,3)

When a patient in Victoria is assessed by a surgeon as requiring planned surgery, they are categorised as urgent (Category 1: treatment within 30 days), semi-urgent (Category 2: treatment within 90 days) or non-urgent (Category 3: treatment within 12 months). They are then placed on a hospital-based wait list.

Tap the buttons below for specific data about planned surgery patients treated by urgency category. You can filter by hospital and urgency category.

Scroll further down for more information about the data (measures).

About the data:

The above measures look at:

  • surgery within recommended time
  • overdue surgery outside of recommended time.

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 not-ready-for-surgery days).

The median waiting time is the time within which half of all planned surgery patients are admitted for surgery.

About surgery within and outside of recommended time

The 2023–24 and 2024-25 statewide targets for the percentage of patients treated within recommended time have not been finalised.

Patients who are not ready for planned surgery and those waiting for a non-surgical procedure are excluded.

A ready-for-surgery patient is classified as overdue for planned surgery if the number of days they waited exceeded the recommended time.

Notes

  • Data source: Elective Surgery Information System (ESIS). Data extracted on 16 October 2024
  • Delays in data submission from 8 health services have impacted some measures for the Jul-Sep 2024 period 
    • Impacted health services are Eastern Health, Latrobe Regional Hospital, Mercy Health, Northern Health, Peninsula Health, Royal Women's Hospital, West Gippsland Healthcare Group and Western Health. Impacted measures are median, percentile, percentage and rate measures
    • No campus level results are reported for the Jul-Sep 2024 period
    • Results will be updated next quarter
  • 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
  • Care needs to be taken when assessing results and comparing them to prior periods
  • * No results are available.