Breast lump - excision and/or biopsy waiting time at Northeast Health Wangaratta

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: 17 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 105 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 45 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
Northeast Health Wangaratta	17 days	not published	30 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	19 days	0.1%	2784 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.

Albury Wodonga Health [Wodonga Campus]VIC · about 56 km away20 days
Goulburn Valley Health [Shepparton]VIC · about 81 km away15 days
Wagga Wagga HospitalNSW · about 167 km away14 days
The Northern Hospital [Epping]VIC · about 185 km away20 days
The Bendigo HospitalVIC · about 187 km away14 days
Maroondah Hospital [East Ringwood]VIC · about 187 km away9 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 192 km away15 days
Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 194 km away9 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 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	Northeast Health Wangaratta (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	12	13	15
2017–18	16	13	15
2018–19	not published	14	16
2019–20	14	14	16
2020–21	not published	13	16
2021–22	11	14	16
2022–23	15	14	17
2023–24	16	14	17
2024–25	17	14	17

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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