Mastectomy waiting time at Frankston Hospital

The median wait for mastectomy at this public hospital in the Frankston area of Victoria was 9 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: 9 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 27 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 97 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 7 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 20 days in 2016–17 to 9 days in 2024–25 — down 55% — while the national median rose from 16 days to 19 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is The Alfred, about 36 km away, at 5 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Mastectomy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Frankston Hospital	9 days	not published	27 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	13 days	2.2%	979 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	19 days	1.9%	4551 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 19 days marks the national median.

Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin]VIC · about 26 km away12 days
The AlfredVIC · about 36 km away5 days
Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 37 km away8 days
Maroondah Hospital [East Ringwood]VIC · about 40 km away6 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 41 km away16 days
Peter MacCallum Cancer CentreVIC · about 42 km away14 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 42 km away19 days
Royal Women's Hospital [Parkville]VIC · about 42 km away14 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 Mastectomy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Frankston Hospital (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	20	14	16
2017–18	15	15	16
2018–19	15	14	17
2019–20	17	14	17
2020–21	14	13	18
2021–22	15	14	17
2022–23	16	13	17
2023–24	13	14	19
2024–25	9	13	19

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

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