Breast lump removal waiting time at St Vincent's On the Park
Half of patients at St Vincent's On the Park waited 6 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 East Melbourne area of Victoria.
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
- 6 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 26 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 1 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Vincent's On the Park | 6 days | not published | 26 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.
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne], VIC · about 1 km away: 7 days
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, VIC · about 2 km away: 10 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus], VIC · about 2 km away: 13 days
Royal Women's Hospital [Parkville], VIC · about 2 km away: 17 days
The Alfred, VIC · about 4 km away: 9 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West], VIC · about 9 km away: 15 days
Williamstown Hospital, VIC · about 10 km away: 34 days
Box Hill Hospital, VIC · about 12 km away: 9 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- St Vincent's On the Park
- VIC
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | St Vincent's On the Park (days) | VIC (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | not reported for this period | 13 | 15 |
| 2017–18 | not reported for this period | 13 | 15 |
| 2018–19 | not reported for this period | 14 | 16 |
| 2019–20 | not reported for this period | 14 | 16 |
| 2020–21 | not reported for this period | 13 | 16 |
| 2021–22 | not reported for this period | 14 | 16 |
| 2022–23 | not reported for this period | 14 | 17 |
| 2023–24 | not published | 14 | 17 |
| 2024–25 | 6 | 14 | 17 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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