Surgery Waits

Breast removal waiting time at Mackay Base Hospital

Half of patients at Mackay Base Hospital waited 22 days or less for breast removal in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Mastectomy". This public hospital is in the West Mackay 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
22 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
25 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 70 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here is unchanged from 2016–17 (22 days) — while the national median rose from 16 days to 19 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Townsville University Hospital, about 322 km away, at 17 days.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Mastectomy" 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

Median wait, long waits and volume for Mastectomy, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Mackay Base Hospital22 daysnot published25 surgeries
Queensland (all public hospitals)20 days1.3%1057 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 1000 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for mastectomy by financial year at Mackay Base Hospital, compared with Queensland and Australiadays081523302016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Mackay Base Hospital 22QLD 20Australia 19
View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Mastectomy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodMackay Base Hospital (days)QLD (days)Australia (days)
2016–17221616
2017–18201516
2018–19221617
2019–20201817
2020–21271818
2021–22221917
2022–23272017
2023–24262019
2024–25222019

Queensland's quarterly figures for general surgery

These are not figures for mastectomy. 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 Mackay.

Patients treated
319 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Treated within the recommended time
58.9%July to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Still waiting at the end of the quarter
430 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Waiting longer than recommended
129 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025

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

All surgery at Mackay Base Hospital · Breast removal across Australia · Breast removal in Queensland · All surgery waits in Queensland