Axillary node dissection waiting time at Calvary Mater Newcastle

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Axillary node dissection 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: 24 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 28 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 11 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 11 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 Axillary node dissection, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Calvary Mater Newcastle	24 days	not published	28 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	16 days	0.0%	130 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	12 days	0.0%	155 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	12 days	0.6%	494 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 12 days marks the national median.

Wollongong HospitalNSW · about 186 km away13 days
Peter MacCallum Cancer CentreVIC · about 820 km away7 days
Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin]VIC · about 822 km away6 days
Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital]VIC · about 883 km away11 days
University Hospital GeelongVIC · about 885 km away13 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 1000 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

Some of these hospitals are in another state. Public hospital referrals can cross state borders. Ask your general practitioner (GP) what that would mean for you — see can my GP refer me to a different hospital?

How the wait has changed

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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Axillary node dissection, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Calvary Mater Newcastle (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not reported for this period	not reported for this period	11
2017–18	not reported for this period	not reported for this period	12
2018–19	not reported for this period	not reported for this period	13
2019–20	not reported for this period	not reported for this period	11
2020–21	not reported for this period	not reported for this period	10
2021–22	not published	not published	12
2022–23	18	14	12
2023–24	11	15	12
2024–25	24	16	12

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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