Breast lump removal waiting time at Cessnock Hospital
Half of patients at Cessnock Hospital waited 20 days or less for breast lump removal in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Breast lump - excision and/or biopsy". This public hospital is in the Cessnock area of New South Wales.
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
- 20 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 22 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 105 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 64 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has fallen from 64 days in 2017–18 to 20 days in 2024–25 — down 69% — while the national median rose from 15 days to 17 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Maitland Hospital, about 22 km away, at 16 days.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cessnock Hospital | 20 days | not published | 22 surgeries |
| New South Wales (all public hospitals) | 19 days | 0.1% | 2784 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 17 days | 0.2% | 10691 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 17 days marks the national median.
Maitland Hospital, NSW · about 22 km away: 16 days
Belmont Hospital, NSW · about 36 km away: 14 days
Calvary Mater Newcastle, NSW · about 36 km away: 21 days
Wyong Hospital, NSW · about 50 km away: 20 days
Gosford Hospital, NSW · about 66 km away: 22 days
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital, NSW · about 100 km away: 13 days
Hawkesbury Hospital, NSW · about 100 km away: 21 days
Northern Beaches Hospital, NSW · about 103 km away: 13 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Cessnock Hospital
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Cessnock Hospital (days) | NSW (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | not published | 16 | 15 |
| 2017–18 | 64 | 17 | 15 |
| 2018–19 | 43 | 18 | 16 |
| 2019–20 | 22 | 16 | 16 |
| 2020–21 | not published | 19 | 16 |
| 2021–22 | not published | 17 | 16 |
| 2022–23 | 33 | 18 | 17 |
| 2023–24 | 24 | 20 | 17 |
| 2024–25 | 20 | 19 | 17 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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