Breast removal waiting time at Westmead Hospital
Half of patients at Westmead Hospital waited 27 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 Westmead 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
- 27 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 80 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Waited more than 365 days
- 2.5%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 90 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has risen from 21 days in 2016–17 to 27 days in 2024–25 — up 29% — while the national median rose from 16 days to 19 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Auburn Hospital, about 7 km away, at 22 days. Here, 2.5% 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
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Westmead Hospital | 27 days | 2.5% | 80 surgeries |
| New South Wales (all public hospitals) | 21 days | 1.8% | 1183 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 19 days | 1.9% | 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.
Auburn Hospital, NSW · about 7 km away: 22 days
Fairfield Hospital, NSW · about 10 km away: 20 days
Concord Repatriation Hospital, NSW · about 10 km away: 49 days
Liverpool Hospital, NSW · about 14 km away: 22 days
Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital, NSW · about 15 km away: 20 days
Mount Druitt Hospital, NSW · about 15 km away: 15 days
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital, NSW · about 16 km away: 14 days
Royal North Shore Hospital, NSW · about 19 km away: 15 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Westmead Hospital
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Westmead Hospital (days) | NSW (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 21 | 16 | 16 |
| 2017–18 | 18 | 18 | 16 |
| 2018–19 | 22 | 20 | 17 |
| 2019–20 | 18 | 18 | 17 |
| 2020–21 | 20 | 21 | 18 |
| 2021–22 | 16 | 19 | 17 |
| 2022–23 | 15 | 20 | 17 |
| 2023–24 | 20 | 21 | 19 |
| 2024–25 | 27 | 21 | 19 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
All surgery at Westmead Hospital · Breast removal across Australia · Breast removal in New South Wales · All surgery waits in New South Wales