Varicose vein surgery waiting time at Dandenong 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 Dandenong 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: 124 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 70 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 10.0%2024–25 · released 28 May 2026

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 25 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 339 days in 2012–13 to 124 days in 2024–25 — down 63% — while the national median rose from 96 days to 133 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Monash Medical Centre [Clayton], about 8 km away, at 34 days. Here, 10.0% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 9.5%.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick “Varicose veins treatment” and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Varicose veins treatment, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Dandenong Hospital	124 days	10.0%	70 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 8 km away34 days
Blackburn Public Surgical CentreVIC · about 17 km away185 days
Frankston HospitalVIC · about 21 km away116 days
Frankston Public Surgical CentreVIC · about 21 km away76 days
The AlfredVIC · about 25 km away64 days
St Vincent's On the ParkVIC · about 28 km away76 days
Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]VIC · about 28 km away17 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 29 km away111 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	Dandenong Hospital (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	not published	112	103
2012–13	339	144	96
2013–14	249	126	97
2014–15	333	112	105
2015–16	162	121	104
2016–17	124	76	90
2017–18	210	83	101
2018–19	171	82	108
2019–20	156	92	129
2020–21	512	238	223
2021–22	399	235	208
2022–23	281	168	216
2023–24	198	148	189
2024–25	124	80	133

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

All surgery at Dandenong Hospital · Varicose vein surgery across Australia · Varicose vein surgery in Victoria