Patients waiting for treatment
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 data about patients who are on the wait list and are ready for planned surgery (e.g. those who have completed outpatient assessments, pre-operative imaging, blood collection). 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:
- planned surgery waiting lists
- overdue wait time.
About the planned surgery waiting list
The above measures show the total number of patients on the waiting list at the end of the reporting period. Data is also shown for the number of patients whose waiting period is less than the recommended time.
Patients who are 'not ready for surgery' are excluded.
About average overdue wait time
The average number of days that a patient is overdue for planned surgery. A ready-for-surgery patient is classified as overdue for planned surgery if the total number of days they waited and were ready for surgery exceeded the recommended treatment time for their urgency category.
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.
- Cranbourne Community Hospital's waiting list episodes dating back to September 2025 have been reallocated to this campus from existing Monash sites.
- 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.