Pilonidal sinus surgery waiting time at Sandringham Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Pilonidal sinus surgery at this public hospital, 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: 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.

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 Hospital	13 days	not published	15 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	43 days	2.5%	445 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	65 days	3.4%	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.

Monash Medical Centre [Clayton]VIC · about 13 km away53 days
Williamstown HospitalVIC · about 15 km away70 days
Dandenong HospitalVIC · about 18 km away94 days
Blackburn Public Surgical CentreVIC · about 19 km away48 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 19 km away49 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 23 km away38 days
Frankston Public Surgical CentreVIC · about 24 km away61 days
Angliss HospitalVIC · about 27 km away49 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 Pilonidal sinus surgery, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Sandringham Hospital (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	42	43	55
2017–18	35	52	61
2018–19	not published	53	63
2019–20	52	60	67
2020–21	not published	97	83
2021–22	not published	108	93
2022–23	not published	132	94
2023–24	19	45	70
2024–25	13	43	65

What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

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