Surgery Waits

Pilonidal sinus surgery waiting time at Frankston Public Surgical Centre

The median wait for pilonidal sinus surgery at this public hospital in the Frankston area of Victoria was 61 days in 2024–25.

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

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

Median wait
61 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
28 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 20 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 65 days in 2022–23 to 61 days in 2024–25 — down 6% — while the national median fell from 94 days to 65 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Sandringham Hospital, about 24 km away, at 13 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
Frankston Public Surgical Centre61 daysnot published28 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)43 days2.5%445 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)65 days3.4%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.

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

How the wait has changed

Median wait for pilonidal sinus surgery by financial year at Frankston Public Surgical Centre, compared with Victoria and Australiadays038751131502016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Frankston Public Surgical Centre 61VIC 43Australia 65
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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 periodFrankston Public Surgical Centre (days)VIC (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not reported for this period4355
2017–18not reported for this period5261
2018–19not reported for this period5363
2019–20not reported for this period6067
2020–21not reported for this period9783
2021–22not reported for this period10893
2022–236513294
2023–24304570
2024–25614365

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

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