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Breast lump removal waiting times in South Australia

The median wait for breast lump removal in South Australia public hospitals was 20 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.

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

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Breast lump - excision and/or biopsy" and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.

5 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 South Australia 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 The Queen Elizabeth Hospital 19 days 0.3% 317 surgeries
2 Lyell McEwin Hospital 20 days 0.0% 174 surgeries
2 Modbury Hospital 20 days 0.0% 77 surgeries
4 Flinders Medical Centre 33 days not published 46 surgeries
unranked Naracoorte Health Service not published not published not published
unranked Port Pirie Regional Health Service not published not published not published
unranked Royal Adelaide Hospital not published not published 5 surgeries
unranked Whyalla Hospital and Health Services not published not published not published
unranked Women's and Children's Hospital not published not published not published

Ranked by area in South Australia: near Elizabeth Vale.

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The median wait for breast lump removal in South Australia public hospitals was 20 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

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

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

Waiting times differ across state borders, and a referral can cross one — read what that means. Compare with every other state, or see every surgery reported in South Australia.