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Breast removal waiting times in Victoria

The median wait for breast removal in Victoria public hospitals was 13 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.

30 public hospitals in Victoria 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.

9 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 Victoria 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 Alfred 5 days not published 30 surgeries
2 Maroondah Hospital [East Ringwood] 6 days 0.0% 85 surgeries
3 Box Hill Hospital 8 days not published 12 surgeries
3 South West Healthcare [Warrnambool] 8 days not published 21 surgeries
5 Frankston Hospital 9 days not published 27 surgeries
6 Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin] 12 days 0.0% 88 surgeries
7 Austin Hospital [Heidelberg] 13 days not published 31 surgeries
7 Northeast Health Wangaratta 13 days not published 11 surgeries
7 University Hospital Geelong 13 days 0.0% 78 surgeries
10 Goulburn Valley Health [Shepparton] 14 days not published 13 surgeries
10 Latrobe Regional Hospital [Traralgon] 14 days not published 30 surgeries
10 Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre 14 days 5.0% 121 surgeries
10 Royal Women's Hospital [Parkville] 14 days not published 36 surgeries
14 Sunshine Hospital 15 days 1.8% 57 surgeries
15 St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne] 16 days not published 29 surgeries
15 The Bendigo Hospital 16 days not published 41 surgeries
17 Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital] 19 days not published 49 surgeries
17 Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West] 19 days not published 39 surgeries
17 Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus] 19 days 8.5% 82 surgeries
20 Albury Wodonga Health [Wodonga Campus] 21 days not published 25 surgeries
21 The Northern Hospital [Epping] 22 days not published 36 surgeries
unranked Bass Coast Health not published not published 5 surgeries
unranked Blackburn Public Surgical Centre not published not published 6 surgeries
unranked Casey Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Dandenong Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Frankston Public Surgical Centre not published not published 5 surgeries
unranked Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville] not published not published not published
unranked Werribee Mercy Hospital not published not published 8 surgeries
unranked West Gippsland Healthcare Group [Warragul] not published not published 8 surgeries
unranked Western Hospital [Footscray] not published not published not published

Ranked by area in Victoria: near Box Hill · near Heidelberg.

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The median wait for breast removal in Victoria public hospitals was 13 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

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

Attribution: Surgery Waits (https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/mastectomy/vic/), 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 Victoria.