Surgery Waits

Varicose vein surgery waiting time at Frankston Public Surgical Centre

The median wait for varicose vein surgery — published by the source as "Varicose veins treatment" — at this public hospital in the Frankston area of Victoria was 76 days in 2024–25.

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

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

Median wait
76 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
114 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
7.0%2024–25 · released 28 May 2026

Half the people who had this surgery here waited less than the median, and half waited longer. Of the 64 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 11 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 747 days in 2023–24 to 76 days in 2024–25 — down 90% — while the national median fell from 189 days to 133 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Monash Medical Centre [Clayton], about 25 km away, at 34 days. Here, 7.0% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 9.5%.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Varicose veins treatment" 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 Varicose veins treatment, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Frankston Public Surgical Centre76 days7.0%114 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)80 days9.0%1224 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)133 days9.5%3346 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 133 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 varicose veins treatment by financial year at Frankston Public Surgical Centre, compared with Victoria and Australiadays01883755637502011–122014–152017–182020–212023–242024–25Frankston Public Surgical Centre 76VIC 80Australia 133
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Varicose veins treatment, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodFrankston Public Surgical Centre (days)VIC (days)Australia (days)
2011–12not reported for this period112103
2012–13not reported for this period14496
2013–14not reported for this period12697
2014–15not reported for this period112105
2015–16not reported for this period121104
2016–17not reported for this period7690
2017–18not reported for this period83101
2018–19not reported for this period82108
2019–20not reported for this period92129
2020–21not reported for this period238223
2021–22not reported for this period235208
2022–23not published168216
2023–24747148189
2024–257680133

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

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