Breast lump removal waiting time at Calvary Mater Newcastle

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 Waratah 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: 21 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 180 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 0.0%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 has risen from 16 days in 2016–17 to 21 days in 2024–25 — up 31% — while the national median rose from 15 days to 17 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Belmont Hospital, about 15 km away, at 14 days. Here, 0.0% 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
Calvary Mater Newcastle	21 days	0.0%	180 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.

Belmont HospitalNSW · about 15 km away14 days
Maitland HospitalNSW · about 25 km away16 days
Cessnock HospitalNSW · about 36 km away20 days
Wyong HospitalNSW · about 46 km away20 days
Gosford HospitalNSW · about 68 km away22 days
Northern Beaches HospitalNSW · about 105 km away13 days
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai HospitalNSW · about 106 km away13 days
Royal North Shore HospitalNSW · about 114 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	Calvary Mater Newcastle (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	16	16	15
2017–18	16	17	15
2018–19	16	18	16
2019–20	13	16	16
2020–21	17	19	16
2021–22	16	17	16
2022–23	20	18	17
2023–24	24	20	17
2024–25	21	19	17

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

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