Surgery Waits

Mastectomy waiting time at North West Regional Hospital

The median wait for mastectomy at this public hospital in the Park Grove area of Tasmania was 23 days in 2024–25.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released

These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.

Median wait
23 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
13 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 78 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 15 days in 2016–17 to 23 days in 2024–25 — up 53% — while the national median rose from 16 days to 19 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Launceston General Hospital, about 114 km away, at 21 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
North West Regional Hospital23 daysnot published13 surgeries
Tasmania (all public hospitals)23 days2.5%121 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)13 days2.2%979 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 500 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

Some of these hospitals are in another state — a public hospital referral can cross the border, so ask your GP what that would mean for you.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for mastectomy by financial year at North West Regional Hospital, compared with Tasmania and Australiadays081523302016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25North West Regional Hospital 23TAS 23Australia 19
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Median wait in days for Mastectomy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodNorth West Regional Hospital (days)TAS (days)Australia (days)
2016–1715not published16
2017–18not publishednot published16
2018–19not publishednot published17
2019–20191817
2020–21242518
2021–2215not published17
2022–23192217
2023–24282119
2024–25232319

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

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