Breast lump - excision and/or biopsy waiting time at Albany Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Breast lump - excision and/or biopsy at this public hospital, with the nearest alternatives that published a figure.

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

Median wait: 29 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 30 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: not published2024–25 · released 28 May 2026 — Reported data did not meet the criteria to calculate this indicator.

Half the people who had this surgery here waited less than the median, and half waited longer. Of the 105 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 100 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Breast lump - excision and/or biopsy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Albany Hospital	29 days	not published	30 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)	19 days	0.2%	1255 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	17 days	0.2%	10691 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

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

Bunbury HospitalWA · about 276 km away19 days
Peel Health CampusWA · about 339 km away13 days
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial HospitalWA · about 364 km away18 days
Fiona Stanley HospitalWA · about 378 km away20 days
Bentley Health ServiceWA · about 380 km away21 days
Fremantle Hospital and Health ServiceWA · about 383 km away20 days
Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street CampusWA · about 388 km away18 days
Sir Charles Gairdner HospitalWA · about 389 km away14 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 500 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Albany Hospital
WA
Australia

View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Breast lump - excision and/or biopsy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Albany Hospital (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	10	15	15
2017–18	12	18	15
2018–19	20	19	16
2019–20	16	18	16
2020–21	24	17	16
2021–22	15	16	16
2022–23	27	18	17
2023–24	29	18	17
2024–25	29	19	17

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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