Breast lump - excision and/or biopsy waiting time at North West Regional Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Breast lump - excision and/or biopsy 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: 26 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 40 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 97 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 lump - excision and/or biopsy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
North West Regional Hospital	26 days	not published	40 surgeries
Tasmania (all public hospitals)	22 days	0.0%	232 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	14 days	0.3%	3464 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.

Launceston General HospitalTAS · about 114 km away17 days
Royal Hobart HospitalTAS · about 236 km away21 days
Bass Coast HealthVIC · about 272 km away12 days
Latrobe Regional Hospital [Traralgon]VIC · about 319 km away12 days
West Gippsland Healthcare Group [Warragul]VIC · about 320 km away14 days
Frankston Public Surgical CentreVIC · about 328 km away14 days
Frankston HospitalVIC · about 329 km away15 days
Casey HospitalVIC · about 337 km away12 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 500 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 Breast lump - excision and/or biopsy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	North West Regional Hospital (days)	TAS (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	16	16	15
2017–18	20	15	15
2018–19	9	18	16
2019–20	22	19	16
2020–21	20	19	16
2021–22	21	22	16
2022–23	26	19	17
2023–24	27	21	17
2024–25	26	22	17

What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

All surgery at North West Regional Hospital · Breast lump - excision and/or biopsy across Australia · Breast lump - excision and/or biopsy in Tasmania