Surgery Waits

Mastectomy waiting time at Box Hill Hospital

The median wait for mastectomy at this public hospital in the Box Hill area of Victoria was 8 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
8 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
12 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 3 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 21 days in 2016–17 to 8 days in 2024–25 — down 62% — while the national median rose from 16 days to 19 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Maroondah Hospital [East Ringwood], about 12 km away, at 6 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
Box Hill Hospital8 daysnot published12 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)13 days2.2%979 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 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for mastectomy by financial year at Box Hill Hospital, compared with Victoria and Australiadays061319252016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Box Hill Hospital 8VIC 13Australia 19
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Median wait in days for Mastectomy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodBox Hill Hospital (days)VIC (days)Australia (days)
2016–17211416
2017–18not published1516
2018–19not published1417
2019–20not reported for this period1417
2020–21not published1318
2021–22not published1417
2022–23not published1317
2023–24not published1419
2024–2581319

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

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