Breast reconstruction waiting time at Calvary Mater Newcastle

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Breast reconstruction 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: 291 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 34 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 25 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 reconstruction, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Calvary Mater Newcastle	291 days	not published	30 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	194 days	16.5%	272 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	146 days	25.7%	1192 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 146 days marks the national median.

Gosford HospitalNSW · about 68 km away365 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst]NSW · about 118 km away284 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 119 km away134 days
Royal Prince Alfred HospitalNSW · about 121 km away13 days
Westmead HospitalNSW · about 121 km away373 days
Royal Hospital for WomenNSW · about 122 km away233 days
Mount Druitt HospitalNSW · about 127 km away93 days
St George Hospital NSWNSW · about 131 km away285 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 reconstruction, 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	96
2017–18	not reported for this period	not reported for this period	118
2018–19	not reported for this period	not reported for this period	111
2019–20	not reported for this period	not reported for this period	137
2020–21	not reported for this period	not reported for this period	113
2021–22	126	not published	103
2022–23	145	136	154
2023–24	150	127	149
2024–25	291	194	146

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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