Pilonidal sinus surgery waiting time at Angliss Hospital

The median wait for pilonidal sinus surgery at this public hospital in the Upper Ferntree Gully area of Victoria was 49 days in 2024–25.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026

These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.

Median wait: 49 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 20 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 46 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 risen from 46 days in 2016–17 to 49 days in 2024–25 — up 7% — while the national median rose from 55 days to 65 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Blackburn Public Surgical Centre, about 16 km away, at 48 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Pilonidal sinus surgery, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Angliss Hospital	49 days	not published	20 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	43 days	2.5%	445 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	65 days	3.4%	1265 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 65 days marks the national median.

Dandenong HospitalVIC · about 12 km away94 days
Monash Medical Centre [Clayton]VIC · about 14 km away53 days
Blackburn Public Surgical CentreVIC · about 16 km away48 days
Sandringham HospitalVIC · about 27 km away13 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 28 km away38 days
Frankston Public Surgical CentreVIC · about 33 km away61 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 33 km away49 days
Williamstown HospitalVIC · about 37 km away70 days

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

How the wait has changed

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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Pilonidal sinus surgery, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Angliss Hospital (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	46	43	55
2017–18	51	52	61
2018–19	61	53	63
2019–20	76	60	67
2020–21	115	97	83
2021–22	78	108	93
2022–23	222	132	94
2023–24	23	45	70
2024–25	49	43	65

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

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