Varicose vein surgery waiting time at Frankston Hospital

The median wait for varicose vein surgery — published by the source as "Varicose veins treatment" — at this public hospital in the Frankston area of Victoria was 116 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: 116 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 64 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 21 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 174 days in 2011–12 to 116 days in 2024–25 — down 33% — while the national median rose from 103 days to 133 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Frankston Public Surgical Centre, about 1 km away, at 76 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Varicose veins treatment, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Frankston Hospital	116 days	not published	28 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	80 days	9.0%	1224 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	133 days	9.5%	3346 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 133 days marks the national median.

Frankston Public Surgical CentreVIC · about 1 km away76 days
Dandenong HospitalVIC · about 21 km away124 days
Monash Medical Centre [Clayton]VIC · about 25 km away34 days
Blackburn Public Surgical CentreVIC · about 35 km away185 days
The AlfredVIC · about 36 km away64 days
St Vincent's On the ParkVIC · about 40 km away76 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 41 km away111 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 42 km away92 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 Varicose veins treatment, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Frankston Hospital (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	174	112	103
2012–13	238	144	96
2013–14	176	126	97
2014–15	103	112	105
2015–16	169	121	104
2016–17	119	76	90
2017–18	76	83	101
2018–19	104	82	108
2019–20	268	92	129
2020–21	591	238	223
2021–22	406	235	208
2022–23	683	168	216
2023–24	466	148	189
2024–25	116	80	133

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

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