Breast lump removal near Westmead
Near Westmead, Fairfield Hospital, just outside the area, had the shortest median wait for breast lump removal in 2024–25: 15 days (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).
Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026.
3 public hospitals are ranked here by the median wait the source published for breast lump removal, shortest first, and by nothing else. Every hospital listed is within 120 km of every other. 1 hospital sits just outside this area, within about 25 km of one of its hospitals, and is included because a referral can cross the line. 2 hospitals have no current published median. They are listed last and never ranked; a figure the source withheld reads "not published". The source publishes this surgery as "Breast lump - excision and/or biopsy".
Hospitals in or near Westmead
| Rank | Hospital | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Where |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fairfield Hospital | 15 days | not published | Prairiewood, NSW. Outside this area, about 10 km from Westmead Hospital. |
| 2 | Mount Druitt Hospital | 20 days | 0.0% | Rooty Hill, NSW. In this area. |
| 3 | Westmead Hospital | 22 days | 0.0% | Westmead, NSW. In this area. |
| unranked | Auburn Hospital | not published | not published | Auburn, NSW. In this area. |
| unranked | Blacktown Hospital | not published | not published | Blacktown, NSW. In this area. |
This area covers Auburn Hospital, Blacktown Hospital, Mount Druitt Hospital and Westmead Hospital: the hospitals of the source's Local Hospital Network "Western Sydney". Distances are straight lines between hospital locations, rounded to the nearest kilometre; they are not travel distances. A shorter median does not mean a hospital will see you sooner: your urgency category and your specialist decide that.
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Near Westmead, Fairfield Hospital, just outside the area, had the shortest median wait for breast lump removal in 2024–25: 15 days (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).
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Surgery Waits, "Breast lump removal near Westmead: hospital waits", 2024–25 data released 28 May 2026, https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/breast-lump-removal/near/westmead/, accessed 28 May 2026.Attribution: Surgery Waits (https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/breast-lump-removal/near/westmead/), from Australian Institute of Health and Welfare MyHospitals data, CC BY 3.0 AU. Reference period 2024–25, released 28 May 2026.
What is not here
Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.
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