Surgery Waits

Breast lump removal waiting time at Gympie Hospital

Half of patients at Gympie 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 Gympie area of Queensland.

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
40 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 24 days in 2016–17 to 20 days in 2024–25 — down 17% — while the national median rose from 15 days to 17 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Caboolture Hospital, about 104 km away, at 19 days.

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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
Gympie Hospital20 daysnot published40 surgeries
Queensland (all public hospitals)20 days0.3%2328 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)17 days0.2%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.

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

How the wait has changed

Median wait for breast lump - excision and/or biopsy by financial year at Gympie Hospital, compared with Queensland and Australiadays0102030402016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Gympie Hospital 20QLD 20Australia 17
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 periodGympie Hospital (days)QLD (days)Australia (days)
2016–17241515
2017–18171515
2018–19231616
2019–20241716
2020–21231816
2021–22311816
2022–23251917
2023–24241917
2024–25202017

Queensland's quarterly figures for general surgery

These are not figures for breast lump - excision and/or biopsy. Queensland reports by surgical specialty, not by procedure. A specialty covers many different operations, so a specialty figure is never a figure for any one of them.

Queensland Health publishes its own figures every three months. They count differently from the national figures above and are never combined with them. This quarter ends after the national reporting period, so it is the more recent of the two.

Covers July to September 2025, published by Queensland Health on 28 October 2025. Reported as Gympie.

Patients treated
107 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Treated within the recommended time
99.1%July to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Still waiting at the end of the quarter
77 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Waiting longer than recommended
0 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025

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

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