Breast lump removal waiting time at Northern Beaches Hospital
Half of patients at Northern Beaches Hospital waited 13 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 Frenchs Forest area of New South Wales.
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
- 13 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 18 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 12 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has fallen from 14 days in 2018–19 to 13 days in 2024–25 — down 7% — while the national median rose from 16 days to 17 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Northern Beaches Hospital | 13 days | not published | 18 surgeries |
| New South Wales (all public hospitals) | 19 days | 0.1% | 2784 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.
Royal North Shore Hospital, NSW · about 9 km away: 13 days
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital, NSW · about 12 km away: 13 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst], NSW · about 14 km away: 21 days
Concord Repatriation Hospital, NSW · about 16 km away: 15 days
Royal Hospital for Women, NSW · about 19 km away: 18 days
Westmead Hospital, NSW · about 24 km away: 22 days
St George Hospital NSW, NSW · about 26 km away: 19 days
Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital, NSW · about 28 km away: 47 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Northern Beaches Hospital
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Northern Beaches Hospital (days) | NSW (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | not reported for this period | 16 | 15 |
| 2017–18 | not reported for this period | 17 | 15 |
| 2018–19 | 14 | 18 | 16 |
| 2019–20 | 7 | 16 | 16 |
| 2020–21 | 8 | 19 | 16 |
| 2021–22 | not published | 17 | 16 |
| 2022–23 | 7 | 18 | 17 |
| 2023–24 | 8 | 20 | 17 |
| 2024–25 | 13 | 19 | 17 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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