Radical neck dissection waiting time at Dandenong Hospital

The median wait for radical neck dissection at this public hospital in the Dandenong area of Victoria was 17 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: 17 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 31 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 17 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 11 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 10 days in 2016–17 to 17 days in 2024–25 — up 70% — while the national median rose from 13 days to 15 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Box Hill Hospital, about 20 km away, at 10 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Radical neck dissection, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Dandenong Hospital	17 days	not published	31 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	13 days	0.0%	199 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	15 days	0.9%	535 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 15 days marks the national median.

Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin]VIC · about 15 km away20 days
Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 20 km away10 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 29 km away16 days
Peter MacCallum Cancer CentreVIC · about 30 km away9 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 30 km away12 days
The Bendigo HospitalVIC · about 160 km away16 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 Radical neck dissection, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Dandenong Hospital (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	10	13	13
2017–18	13	14	14
2018–19	14	14	15
2019–20	5	12	12
2020–21	11	13	13
2021–22	15	13	13
2022–23	10	13	14
2023–24	15	12	13
2024–25	17	13	15

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

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