Breast lump removal waiting time at Bathurst Base Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for breast lump removal — published by the source as “Breast lump - excision and/or biopsy” — at this public hospital in the Bathurst area of New South Wales, 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: 13 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 25 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 12 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here is unchanged from 2016–17 (13 days) — while the national median rose from 15 days to 17 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.

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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
Bathurst Base Hospital	13 days	not published	25 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	19 days	0.1%	2784 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.

Orange Health ServiceNSW · about 46 km away14 days
Cowra Health ServiceNSW · about 94 km away18 days
Nepean HospitalNSW · about 113 km away23 days
Hawkesbury HospitalNSW · about 118 km away21 days
Mount Druitt HospitalNSW · about 123 km away20 days
Fairfield HospitalNSW · about 133 km away15 days
Campbelltown HospitalNSW · about 136 km away25 days
Liverpool HospitalNSW · about 138 km away23 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Bathurst Base Hospital
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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	Bathurst Base Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	13	16	15
2017–18	13	17	15
2018–19	12	18	16
2019–20	11	16	16
2020–21	16	19	16
2021–22	18	17	16
2022–23	15	18	17
2023–24	16	20	17
2024–25	13	19	17

Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.

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