Surgery Waits

Deviated septum surgery waiting time at Frankston Hospital

Half of patients at Frankston Hospital waited 258 days or less for deviated septum surgery in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Septoplasty". 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
258 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
21 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 103 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 41 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 539 days in 2011–12 to 258 days in 2024–25 — down 52% — while the national median rose from 160 days to 320 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Frankston Public Surgical Centre, about 1 km away, at 244 days.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Septoplasty" 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 Septoplasty, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Frankston Hospital258 daysnot published21 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)279 days41.1%1841 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)320 days30.8%5687 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 320 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 septoplasty by financial year at Frankston Hospital, compared with Victoria and Australiadays025050075010002011–122014–152017–182020–212023–242024–25Frankston Hospital 258VIC 279Australia 320
View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Septoplasty, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodFrankston Hospital (days)VIC (days)Australia (days)
2011–12539101160
2012–13561129197
2013–14630138221
2014–15401131214
2015–16578123209
2016–1755889209
2017–18515112248
2018–19303125241
2019–20277137277
2020–21569264330
2021–22486196315
2022–23970449365
2023–24742377332
2024–25258279320

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

All surgery at Frankston Hospital · Deviated septum surgery across Australia · Deviated septum surgery in Victoria · All surgery waits in Victoria