Varicose vein surgery waiting time at Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital]

Median wait, long waits and volumes for varicose vein surgery — published by the source as “Varicose veins treatment” — at this public hospital in the Ballarat Central area of Victoria, with the nearest alternatives that published a figure.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026

Median wait: 64 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 37 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 7 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 73 days in 2011–12 to 64 days in 2024–25 — down 12% — while the national median rose from 103 days to 133 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Austin Hospital [Heidelberg], about 109 km away, at 17 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
Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital]	64 days	not published	37 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.

University Hospital GeelongVIC · about 80 km away176 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 101 km away92 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 103 km away111 days
The Northern Hospital [Epping]VIC · about 103 km away93 days
St Vincent's On the ParkVIC · about 103 km away76 days
The AlfredVIC · about 105 km away64 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 108 km away69 days
Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]VIC · about 109 km away17 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	Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital] (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	73	112	103
2012–13	57	144	96
2013–14	69	126	97
2014–15	28	112	105
2015–16	32	121	104
2016–17	78	76	90
2017–18	71	83	101
2018–19	76	82	108
2019–20	68	92	129
2020–21	96	238	223
2021–22	48	235	208
2022–23	99	168	216
2023–24	58	148	189
2024–25	64	80	133

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

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