Breast lump removal waiting time at Bentley Health Service

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 St James area of Western Australia, 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: 21 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 286 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 0.3%2024–25 · released 28 May 2026

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 79 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 (21 days) — while the national median rose from 15 days to 17 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus, about 8 km away, at 18 days. Here, 0.3% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 0.2%.

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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
Bentley Health Service	21 days	0.3%	286 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.

Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street CampusWA · about 8 km away18 days
Fiona Stanley HospitalWA · about 10 km away20 days
Sir Charles Gairdner HospitalWA · about 11 km away14 days
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial HospitalWA · about 17 km away18 days
Osborne Park HospitalWA · about 18 km away22 days
Fremantle Hospital and Health ServiceWA · about 18 km away20 days
Joondalup Health Campus (Public)WA · about 33 km away11 days
Peel Health CampusWA · about 61 km away13 days

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

How the wait has changed

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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	Bentley Health Service (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	21	15	15
2017–18	33	18	15
2018–19	21	19	16
2019–20	20	18	16
2020–21	22	17	16
2021–22	21	16	16
2022–23	19	18	17
2023–24	24	18	17
2024–25	21	19	17

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

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