Varicose vein surgery waiting time at Blackburn Public Surgical Centre

Median wait, long waits and volumes for varicose vein surgery — published by the source as “Varicose veins treatment” — at this public hospital in the Blackburn South 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: 185 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 36 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 36 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Monash Medical Centre [Clayton], about 10 km away, at 34 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
Blackburn Public Surgical Centre	185 days	not published	36 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.

Monash Medical Centre [Clayton]VIC · about 10 km away34 days
Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]VIC · about 12 km away17 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 13 km away69 days
The AlfredVIC · about 15 km away64 days
St Vincent's On the ParkVIC · about 16 km away76 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 16 km away111 days
Dandenong HospitalVIC · about 17 km away124 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 18 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	Blackburn Public Surgical Centre (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	not reported for this period	112	103
2012–13	not reported for this period	144	96
2013–14	not reported for this period	126	97
2014–15	not reported for this period	112	105
2015–16	not reported for this period	121	104
2016–17	not reported for this period	76	90
2017–18	not reported for this period	83	101
2018–19	not reported for this period	82	108
2019–20	not reported for this period	92	129
2020–21	not reported for this period	238	223
2021–22	not reported for this period	235	208
2022–23	not reported for this period	168	216
2023–24	not reported for this period	148	189
2024–25	185	80	133

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

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