Surgery Waits

Breast removal waiting time at Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus

Half of patients at Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus waited 20 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 Perth area of Western Australia.

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
64 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
1.6%2024–25 · released 28 May 2026

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 49 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 19 days in 2016–17 to 20 days in 2024–25 — up 5% — while the national median rose from 16 days to 19 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, about 5 km away, at 14 days. Here, 1.6% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 1.9%.

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
Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus20 days1.6%64 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)18 days2.1%576 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 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for mastectomy by financial year at Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus, compared with Western Australia and Australiadays061319252016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus 20WA 18Australia 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 periodRoyal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus (days)WA (days)Australia (days)
2016–17191416
2017–18191816
2018–19221817
2019–20221617
2020–21251718
2021–22181417
2022–23181717
2023–24221819
2024–25201819

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

All surgery at Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus · Breast removal across Australia · Breast removal in Western Australia · All surgery waits in Western Australia