Varicose vein surgery waiting time at Flinders Medical 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 Bedford Park area of South Australia, 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: 230 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 50 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 32.0%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 40 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 229 days in 2011–12 to 230 days in 2024–25 — up 0% — while the national median rose from 103 days to 133 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Murray Bridge Soldiers' Memorial Hospital, about 66 km away, at 15 days. Here, 32.0% 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
Flinders Medical Centre	230 days	32.0%	50 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)	206 days	31.6%	114 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.

Noarlunga HospitalSA · about 15 km away342 days
Murray Bridge Soldiers' Memorial HospitalSA · about 66 km away15 days
South West Healthcare [Warrnambool]VIC · about 510 km away223 days
Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital]VIC · about 551 km away64 days
University Hospital GeelongVIC · about 623 km away176 days
The Northern Hospital [Epping]VIC · about 647 km away93 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 649 km away92 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 651 km away111 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 1000 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

Some of these hospitals are in another state — a public hospital referral can cross the border, so ask your GP what that would mean for you.

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	Flinders Medical Centre (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	229	119	103
2012–13	55	88	96
2013–14	59	60	97
2014–15	111	77	105
2015–16	62	80	104
2016–17	not published	80	90
2017–18	352	168	101
2018–19	217	205	108
2019–20	136	119	129
2020–21	189	155	223
2021–22	338	243	208
2022–23	385	249	216
2023–24	418	not published	189
2024–25	230	206	133

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

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