Haemorrhoid surgery waiting time at Sandringham Hospital

The median wait for haemorrhoid surgery — published by the source as "Haemorrhoidectomy" — at this public hospital in the Sandringham area of Victoria was 15 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: 15 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 34 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 109 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 4 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 67 days in 2011–12 to 15 days in 2024–25 — down 78% — while the national median rose from 57 days to 63 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Haemorrhoidectomy" and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Haemorrhoidectomy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Sandringham Hospital	15 days	not published	34 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	43 days	1.7%	2209 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	63 days	2.6%	4759 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 63 days marks the national median.

The AlfredVIC · about 13 km away29 days
Williamstown HospitalVIC · about 15 km away47 days
St Vincent's On the ParkVIC · about 17 km away56 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 18 km away129 days
Dandenong HospitalVIC · about 18 km away89 days
Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 19 km away104 days
Blackburn Public Surgical CentreVIC · about 19 km away49 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 19 km away63 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 Haemorrhoidectomy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Sandringham Hospital (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	67	63	57
2012–13	46	79	59
2013–14	52	69	59
2014–15	41	58	56
2015–16	35	55	54
2016–17	28	41	49
2017–18	43	37	47
2018–19	48	34	49
2019–20	57	38	57
2020–21	97	70	70
2021–22	84	99	77
2022–23	68	127	90
2023–24	16	53	67
2024–25	15	43	63

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

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