Pilonidal sinus surgery waiting time at Williamstown Hospital

The median wait for pilonidal sinus surgery at this public hospital in the Williamstown area of Victoria was 70 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: 70 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 22 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 25 days in 2016–17 to 70 days in 2024–25 — up 180% — while the national median rose from 55 days to 65 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus], about 9 km away, at 49 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Pilonidal sinus surgery, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Williamstown Hospital	70 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.

Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 9 km away49 days
Sunshine HospitalVIC · about 13 km away55 days
Sandringham HospitalVIC · about 15 km away13 days
Werribee Mercy HospitalVIC · about 17 km away161 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 18 km away38 days
Blackburn Public Surgical CentreVIC · about 23 km away48 days
Monash Medical Centre [Clayton]VIC · about 24 km away53 days
The Northern Hospital [Epping]VIC · about 26 km away44 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 Pilonidal sinus surgery, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Williamstown Hospital (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	25	43	55
2017–18	43	52	61
2018–19	26	53	63
2019–20	46	60	67
2020–21	not published	97	83
2021–22	189	108	93
2022–23	159	132	94
2023–24	43	45	70
2024–25	70	43	65

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

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