Surgery Waits

Breast removal waiting time at Albany Hospital

Half of patients at Albany Hospital waited 24 days or less for breast removal in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Mastectomy". This public hospital is in the Spencer Park area of Western Australia.

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
24 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
26 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 97 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 81 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 14 days in 2016–17 to 24 days in 2024–25 — up 71% — while the national median rose from 16 days to 19 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Bunbury Hospital, about 276 km away, at 16 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Mastectomy, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Albany Hospital24 daysnot published26 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)18 days2.1%576 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)19 days1.9%4551 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 19 days marks the national median.

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 500 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for mastectomy by financial year at Albany Hospital, compared with Western Australia and Australiadays081523302016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Albany Hospital 24WA 18Australia 19
View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Mastectomy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodAlbany Hospital (days)WA (days)Australia (days)
2016–17141416
2017–18131816
2018–19251817
2019–20not published1617
2020–21271718
2021–22231417
2022–23231717
2023–24291819
2024–25241819

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

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