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Breast removal waiting times in New South Wales

The median wait for breast removal in New South Wales public hospitals was 21 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The national median was 19 days. The source publishes this surgery as "Mastectomy".

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

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

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.

11 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 19 days marks the national median.

Mastectomy 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 Royal Prince Alfred Hospital 8 days not published 19 surgeries
2 Belmont Hospital 14 days not published 11 surgeries
2 Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital 14 days not published 11 surgeries
4 Mount Druitt Hospital 15 days not published 27 surgeries
4 Port Macquarie Base Hospital 15 days not published 16 surgeries
4 Royal North Shore Hospital 15 days not published 35 surgeries
4 Tamworth Hospital 15 days not published 44 surgeries
4 Wollongong Hospital 15 days not published 49 surgeries
9 Shoalhaven Hospital 16 days not published 12 surgeries
10 Prince of Wales Hospital 17 days not published 29 surgeries
10 Wagga Wagga Hospital 17 days not published 21 surgeries
12 Coffs Harbour Hospital 18 days not published 30 surgeries
12 Maitland Hospital 18 days not published 12 surgeries
12 Nepean Hospital 18 days not published 42 surgeries
15 Moruya Hospital 19 days not published 11 surgeries
16 Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital 20 days not published 34 surgeries
16 Dubbo Hospital 20 days not published 25 surgeries
16 Fairfield Hospital 20 days not published 26 surgeries
16 Gosford Hospital 20 days not published 40 surgeries
20 Campbelltown Hospital 21 days 1.4% 70 surgeries
20 Orange Health Service 21 days not published 27 surgeries
20 St George Hospital NSW 21 days 4.7% 64 surgeries
20 Tweed Valley Hospital 21 days not published 31 surgeries
24 Auburn Hospital 22 days not published 21 surgeries
24 Liverpool Hospital 22 days not published 49 surgeries
24 Royal Hospital for Women 22 days not published 33 surgeries
27 Lismore Base Hospital 26 days not published 33 surgeries
27 South East Regional Hospital 26 days not published 30 surgeries
29 Westmead Hospital 27 days 2.5% 80 surgeries
30 Hawkesbury Hospital 28 days not published 14 surgeries
30 Shellharbour Hospital 28 days not published 16 surgeries
32 St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst] 31 days not published 10 surgeries
33 Calvary Mater Newcastle 35 days 2.7% 73 surgeries
34 Concord Repatriation Hospital 49 days 0.0% 93 surgeries
unranked Bathurst Base Hospital not published not published 9 surgeries
unranked Bowral Hospital not published not published 6 surgeries
unranked Cessnock Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Goulburn Base Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Griffith Base Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Kempsey District Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Manning Hospital not published not published 6 surgeries
unranked Mudgee Health Service not published not published not published
unranked Northern Beaches Hospital not published not published 7 surgeries
unranked Sutherland Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Wyong Hospital not published not published 5 surgeries

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

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The median wait for breast removal in New South Wales public hospitals was 21 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

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

Attribution: Surgery Waits (https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/mastectomy/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.

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 New South Wales.