Tailbone cyst surgery waiting time at Sandringham Hospital
Half of patients at Sandringham Hospital waited 13 days or less for tailbone cyst surgery in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Pilonidal sinus surgery". This public hospital is in the Sandringham 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
- 13 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 15 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 46 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 2 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has fallen from 42 days in 2016–17 to 13 days in 2024–25 — down 69% — while the national median rose from 55 days to 65 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.
Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Pilonidal sinus surgery" 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
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sandringham Hospital | 13 days | not published | 15 surgeries |
| Victoria (all public hospitals) | 43 days | 2.5% | 445 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 65 days | 3.4% | 1265 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 65 days marks the national median.
Monash Medical Centre [Clayton], VIC · about 13 km away: 53 days
Williamstown Hospital, VIC · about 15 km away: 70 days
Dandenong Hospital, VIC · about 18 km away: 94 days
Blackburn Public Surgical Centre, VIC · about 19 km away: 48 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus], VIC · about 19 km away: 49 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West], VIC · about 23 km away: 38 days
Frankston Public Surgical Centre, VIC · about 24 km away: 61 days
Angliss Hospital, VIC · about 27 km away: 49 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Sandringham Hospital
- VIC
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Sandringham Hospital (days) | VIC (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 42 | 43 | 55 |
| 2017–18 | 35 | 52 | 61 |
| 2018–19 | not published | 53 | 63 |
| 2019–20 | 52 | 60 | 67 |
| 2020–21 | not published | 97 | 83 |
| 2021–22 | not published | 108 | 93 |
| 2022–23 | not published | 132 | 94 |
| 2023–24 | 19 | 45 | 70 |
| 2024–25 | 13 | 43 | 65 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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