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Breast lump removal waiting times in New South Wales

The median wait for breast lump removal in New South Wales public hospitals was 19 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The national median was 17 days. The source publishes this surgery as "Breast lump - excision and/or biopsy".

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

56 public hospitals in New South Wales reported breast lump removal in 2024–25. They are ranked by their published median wait alone, shortest first.

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17 hospitals have no published median wait for this surgery in this period. They are listed last, marked "not published", and are never ranked.

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 17 days marks the national median.

Breast lump - excision and/or biopsy in New South Wales public hospitals, 2024–25. Hospitals with the same median share a rank and the next rank is skipped. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Rank Hospital Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
1 Wollongong Hospital 12 days 0.0% 120 surgeries
2 Bathurst Base Hospital 13 days not published 25 surgeries
2 Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital 13 days not published 49 surgeries
2 Northern Beaches Hospital 13 days not published 18 surgeries
2 Royal North Shore Hospital 13 days 0.0% 122 surgeries
6 Belmont Hospital 14 days 0.0% 70 surgeries
6 Bowral Hospital 14 days not published 13 surgeries
6 Goulburn Base Hospital 14 days not published 15 surgeries
6 Orange Health Service 14 days not published 47 surgeries
6 Wagga Wagga Hospital 14 days 0.0% 93 surgeries
11 Concord Repatriation Hospital 15 days 0.0% 61 surgeries
11 Fairfield Hospital 15 days not published 19 surgeries
11 Griffith Base Hospital 15 days not published 10 surgeries
14 Maitland Hospital 16 days 0.0% 55 surgeries
15 Tweed Valley Hospital 17 days 0.0% 51 surgeries
16 Coffs Harbour Hospital 18 days 0.0% 88 surgeries
16 Cowra Health Service 18 days not published 12 surgeries
16 Dubbo Hospital 18 days not published 42 surgeries
16 Royal Hospital for Women 18 days 0.0% 76 surgeries
16 Tamworth Hospital 18 days 0.0% 93 surgeries
21 St George Hospital NSW 19 days 0.0% 209 surgeries
22 Cessnock Hospital 20 days not published 22 surgeries
22 Mount Druitt Hospital 20 days 0.0% 187 surgeries
22 Shoalhaven Hospital 20 days not published 37 surgeries
22 South East Regional Hospital 20 days not published 47 surgeries
22 Wyong Hospital 20 days not published 33 surgeries
27 Calvary Mater Newcastle 21 days 0.0% 180 surgeries
27 Hawkesbury Hospital 21 days not published 30 surgeries
27 Port Macquarie Base Hospital 21 days 0.0% 60 surgeries
27 St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst] 21 days not published 17 surgeries
31 Gosford Hospital 22 days 0.0% 169 surgeries
31 Manning Hospital 22 days not published 10 surgeries
31 Westmead Hospital 22 days 0.0% 232 surgeries
34 Liverpool Hospital 23 days not published 29 surgeries
34 Nepean Hospital 23 days 1.2% 162 surgeries
36 Campbelltown Hospital 25 days not published 45 surgeries
36 Lismore Base Hospital 25 days 0.0% 81 surgeries
38 Shellharbour Hospital 27 days 0.0% 60 surgeries
39 Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital 47 days not published 34 surgeries
unranked Auburn Hospital not published not published 8 surgeries
unranked Ballina District Hospital not published not published 8 surgeries
unranked Blacktown Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Broken Hill Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Canterbury Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Casino and District Memorial Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Deniliquin Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Grafton Base Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Kempsey District Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Lachlan Health Service - Forbes not published not published not published
unranked Moruya Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Mudgee Health Service not published not published 9 surgeries
unranked Murwillumbah District Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Prince of Wales Hospital not published not published 9 surgeries
unranked Ryde Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Sutherland Hospital not published not published 7 surgeries
unranked Wauchope District Memorial Hospital not published not published not published

Ranked by area in New South Wales: near Gosford · near Liverpool · near Penrith · near Randwick · near St Leonards · near Westmead · near Wollongong.

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The median wait for breast lump removal in New South Wales public hospitals was 19 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

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Surgery Waits, "Breast lump removal waiting times in New South Wales", 2024–25 data released 28 May 2026, https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/breast-lump-removal/nsw/, accessed 28 May 2026.

Attribution: Surgery Waits (https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/breast-lump-removal/nsw/), 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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