Surgery Waits

Hiatus hernia repair waiting time at Frankston Hospital

Half of patients at Frankston Hospital waited 71 days or less for hiatus hernia repair in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Repair of obstructing hiatus hernia". This public hospital is in the Frankston area of Victoria.

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
71 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
13 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 41 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 10 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Sandringham Hospital, about 23 km away, at 23 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Repair of obstructing hiatus hernia, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Frankston Hospital71 daysnot published13 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)57 days2.0%248 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)88 days9.2%1170 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 88 days marks the national median.

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for repair of obstructing hiatus hernia by financial year at Frankston Hospital, compared with Victoria and Australiadays03163941252016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Frankston Hospital 71VIC 57Australia 88
View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Repair of obstructing hiatus hernia, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodFrankston Hospital (days)VIC (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not reported for this periodnot published66
2017–18not reported for this periodnot published79
2018–19not reported for this periodnot published78
2019–20not publishednot published81
2020–21not publishednot published91
2021–22not publishednot published98
2022–23not reported for this periodnot published114
2023–24not published6689
2024–25715788

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

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