Surgery Waits

Pilonidal sinus surgery waiting time at Fremantle Hospital and Health Service

The median wait for pilonidal sinus surgery at this public hospital in the Fremantle area of Western Australia was 51 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
51 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
14 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 16 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 69 days in 2016–17 to 51 days in 2024–25 — down 26% — while the national median rose from 55 days to 65 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Joondalup Health Campus (Public), about 36 km away, at 23 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
Fremantle Hospital and Health Service51 daysnot published14 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)68 days2.4%168 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 Fremantle Hospital and Health Service, compared with Western Australia and Australiadays02550751002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Fremantle Hospital and Health Service 51WA 68Australia 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 periodFremantle Hospital and Health Service (days)WA (days)Australia (days)
2016–17694355
2017–18845261
2018–19not published6563
2019–20not published6967
2020–21not published8083
2021–22not published8893
2022–23not published9294
2023–24not published8270
2024–25516865

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

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