Surgery Waits

Brain surgery through the skull (craniotomy) waiting time at Dandenong Hospital

The median wait for brain surgery through the skull (craniotomy) at Dandenong Hospital in 2024–25 is not published by the source (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Craniotomy". This public hospital is in the Dandenong area of Victoria.

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

The source did not publish a median wait for this surgery at this hospital in 2024–25. Reported data did not meet the criteria to calculate this indicator. The hospital is shown here unranked rather than ranked on a number that does not exist.

These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.

Median wait
not published2024–25 · released 28 May 2026 — Reported data did not meet the criteria to calculate this indicator.
Surgeries completed
not published2024–25 · released 28 May 2026 — too few
Waited more than 365 days
not published2024–25 · released 28 May 2026 — Reported data did not meet the criteria to calculate this indicator.

This hospital is not ranked for this surgery.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Craniotomy, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Dandenong Hospitalnot publishednot publishednot published
Victoria (all public hospitals)20 days0.8%723 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)20 days0.9%1392 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Dandenong Hospital did not publish a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, so there is no list of nearer alternatives to compare it against.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for craniotomy by financial year at Dandenong Hospital, compared with Victoria and Australiadays081523302016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25VIC 20Australia 20
View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Craniotomy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodDandenong Hospital (days)VIC (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not reported for this period1814
2017–18not reported for this period2117
2018–19not published2619
2019–20not published1714
2020–21not reported for this period1615
2021–22not published1514
2022–23not published2018
2023–24not published2422
2024–25not published2020

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

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