Breast lump removal waiting time at Northeast Health Wangaratta

The median wait for breast lump removal — published by the source as "Breast lump - excision and/or biopsy" — at this public hospital in the Wangaratta area of Victoria was 17 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: 17 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 30 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 45 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 12 days in 2016–17 to 17 days in 2024–25 — up 42% — while the national median rose from 15 days to 17 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Goulburn Valley Health [Shepparton], about 81 km away, at 15 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
Northeast Health Wangaratta	17 days	not published	30 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	19 days	0.1%	2784 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	14 days	0.3%	3464 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.

Albury Wodonga Health [Wodonga Campus]VIC · about 56 km away20 days
Goulburn Valley Health [Shepparton]VIC · about 81 km away15 days
Wagga Wagga HospitalNSW · about 167 km away14 days
The Northern Hospital [Epping]VIC · about 185 km away20 days
The Bendigo HospitalVIC · about 187 km away14 days
Maroondah Hospital [East Ringwood]VIC · about 187 km away9 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 192 km away15 days
Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 194 km away9 days

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

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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 period	Northeast Health Wangaratta (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	12	13	15
2017–18	16	13	15
2018–19	not published	14	16
2019–20	14	14	16
2020–21	not published	13	16
2021–22	11	14	16
2022–23	15	14	17
2023–24	16	14	17
2024–25	17	14	17

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

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