Surgery Waits

Pilonidal sinus surgery waiting time at Sandringham Hospital

The median wait for pilonidal sinus surgery at this public hospital in the Sandringham area of Victoria was 13 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
13 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
15 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 2 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 42 days in 2016–17 to 13 days in 2024–25 — down 69% — while the national median rose from 55 days to 65 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.

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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
Sandringham Hospital13 daysnot published15 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 Sandringham Hospital, compared with Victoria and Australiadays038751131502016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Sandringham Hospital 13VIC 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 periodSandringham Hospital (days)VIC (days)Australia (days)
2016–17424355
2017–18355261
2018–19not published5363
2019–20526067
2020–21not published9783
2021–22not published10893
2022–23not published13294
2023–24194570
2024–25134365

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

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