Mastectomy waiting time at Fiona Stanley Hospital

The median wait for mastectomy at this public hospital in the Murdoch area of Western Australia was 21 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: 21 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 77 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 7.8%2024–25 · released 28 May 2026

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 58 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 21 days in 2024–25 — up 50% — while the national median rose from 16 days to 19 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Fremantle Hospital and Health Service, about 9 km away, at 20 days. Here, 7.8% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 1.9%.

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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
Fiona Stanley Hospital	21 days	7.8%	77 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)	18 days	2.1%	576 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	19 days	1.9%	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.

Fremantle Hospital and Health ServiceWA · about 9 km away20 days
Bentley Health ServiceWA · about 10 km away17 days
Sir Charles Gairdner HospitalWA · about 12 km away14 days
Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street CampusWA · about 13 km away20 days
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial HospitalWA · about 18 km away19 days
Osborne Park HospitalWA · about 21 km away16 days
Joondalup Health Campus (Public)WA · about 38 km away14 days
Peel Health CampusWA · about 52 km away8 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Fiona Stanley Hospital
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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Mastectomy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Fiona Stanley Hospital (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	14	14	16
2017–18	25	18	16
2018–19	21	18	17
2019–20	21	16	17
2020–21	20	17	18
2021–22	14	14	17
2022–23	17	17	17
2023–24	19	18	19
2024–25	21	18	19

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

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