Breast lump removal waiting time at Fremantle Hospital and Health Service
Half of patients at Fremantle Hospital and Health Service 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 Fremantle 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
- 20 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 210 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Waited more than 365 days
- 0.0%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 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 23 days in 2016–17 to 20 days in 2024–25 — down 13% — while the national median rose from 15 days to 17 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, about 12 km away, at 14 days. Here, 0.0% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 0.2%.
Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Breast lump - excision and/or biopsy" and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.
How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fremantle Hospital and Health Service | 20 days | 0.0% | 210 surgeries |
| Western Australia (all public hospitals) | 19 days | 0.2% | 1255 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.
Fiona Stanley Hospital, WA · about 9 km away: 20 days
Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, WA · about 12 km away: 14 days
Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus, WA · about 16 km away: 18 days
Bentley Health Service, WA · about 18 km away: 21 days
Osborne Park Hospital, WA · about 20 km away: 22 days
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital, WA · about 27 km away: 18 days
Joondalup Health Campus (Public), WA · about 36 km away: 11 days
Peel Health Campus, WA · about 53 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
- Fremantle Hospital and Health Service
- WA
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Fremantle Hospital and Health Service (days) | WA (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 23 | 15 | 15 |
| 2017–18 | 21 | 18 | 15 |
| 2018–19 | 22 | 19 | 16 |
| 2019–20 | 14 | 18 | 16 |
| 2020–21 | 21 | 17 | 16 |
| 2021–22 | 21 | 16 | 16 |
| 2022–23 | 21 | 18 | 17 |
| 2023–24 | 15 | 18 | 17 |
| 2024–25 | 20 | 19 | 17 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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