Surgery Waits

Breast removal waiting time at Western Hospital [Footscray]

The median wait for breast removal at Western Hospital [Footscray] in 2024–25 is not published by the source (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Mastectomy". This public hospital is in the Footscray area of Victoria.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026.

The source did not publish a median wait for this surgery at this hospital in 2024–25. Reported data did not meet the criteria to calculate this indicator. The hospital is shown here unranked rather than ranked on a number that does not exist.

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

Median wait
not published2024–25 · released 28 May 2026 — Reported data did not meet the criteria to calculate this indicator.
Surgeries completed
not published2024–25 · released 28 May 2026 — too few
Waited more than 365 days
not published2024–25 · released 28 May 2026 — Reported data did not meet the criteria to calculate this indicator.

This hospital is not ranked for this surgery.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Mastectomy, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Western Hospital [Footscray]not publishednot publishednot published
Victoria (all public hospitals)13 days2.2%979 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)19 days1.9%4551 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Western Hospital [Footscray] did not publish a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, so there is no list of nearer alternatives to compare it against.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for mastectomy by financial year at Western Hospital [Footscray], compared with Victoria and Australiadays061319252016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Western Hospital [Footscray] 13VIC 13Australia 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 periodWestern Hospital [Footscray] (days)VIC (days)Australia (days)
2016–17161416
2017–18211516
2018–19not published1417
2019–20not published1417
2020–21not published1318
2021–22131417
2022–23not published1317
2023–24not published1419
2024–25not published1319

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

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