Surgery Waits

Breast lump removal waiting time at Alice Springs Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for breast lump removal — published by the source as "Breast lump - excision and/or biopsy" — at this public hospital in the Alice Springs area of Northern Territory, with the nearest alternatives that published a figure.

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

The source did not publish a median wait for this surgery at this hospital in 2024–25. Reported data did not meet the criteria to calculate this indicator. The hospital is shown here unranked rather than ranked on a number that does not exist.

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

Median wait
not published2024–25 · released 28 May 2026 — Reported data did not meet the criteria to calculate this indicator.
Surgeries completed
not published2024–25 · released 28 May 2026 — too few
Waited more than 365 days
not published2024–25 · released 28 May 2026 — Reported data did not meet the criteria to calculate this indicator.

This hospital is not ranked for this surgery.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Breast lump - excision and/or biopsy, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Alice Springs Hospitalnot publishednot publishednot published
Northern Territory (all public hospitals)not publishednot publishednot published
Australia (all public hospitals)17 days0.2%10691 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Alice Springs Hospital did not publish a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, so there is no list of nearer alternatives to compare it against.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for breast lump - excision and/or biopsy by financial year at Alice Springs Hospital, compared with Northern Territory and Australiadays051015202016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Alice Springs Hospital 8Australia 17
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Breast lump - excision and/or biopsy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodAlice Springs Hospital (days)NT (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not reported for this periodnot published15
2017–18not publishednot published15
2018–19not reported for this periodnot published16
2019–20not publishednot published16
2020–21not publishednot published16
2021–22not publishednot published16
2022–23not publishednot published17
2023–248not published17
2024–25not publishednot published17

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

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