Carotid endarterectomy waiting time at Frankston Hospital

The median wait for carotid endarterectomy at this public hospital in the Frankston area of Victoria was 27 days in 2024–25.

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

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

Median wait: 27 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 11 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 27 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 21 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 18 days in 2019–20 to 27 days in 2024–25 — up 50% — while the national median rose from 17 days to 20 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Box Hill Hospital, about 37 km away, at 13 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Carotid endarterectomy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Frankston Hospital	27 days	not published	11 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	19 days	1.6%	128 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	20 days	0.6%	702 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 20 days marks the national median.

Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 37 km away13 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 41 km away8 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 42 km away22 days
Western Hospital [Footscray]VIC · about 45 km away17 days
University Hospital GeelongVIC · about 67 km away26 days
Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital]VIC · about 130 km away20 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 Carotid endarterectomy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Frankston Hospital (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not reported for this period	15	11
2017–18	not reported for this period	16	13
2018–19	not reported for this period	22	19
2019–20	18	17	17
2020–21	26	18	20
2021–22	18	15	16
2022–23	not published	16	18
2023–24	not published	20	18
2024–25	27	19	20

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

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