Breast lump - excision and/or biopsy waiting time at Northern Beaches 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: 13 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 18 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 12 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
Northern Beaches Hospital	13 days	not published	18 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.

Royal North Shore HospitalNSW · about 9 km away13 days
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai HospitalNSW · about 12 km away13 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst]NSW · about 14 km away21 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 16 km away15 days
Royal Hospital for WomenNSW · about 19 km away18 days
Westmead HospitalNSW · about 24 km away22 days
St George Hospital NSWNSW · about 26 km away19 days
Bankstown Lidcombe HospitalNSW · about 28 km away47 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	Northern Beaches Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not reported for this period	16	15
2017–18	not reported for this period	17	15
2018–19	14	18	16
2019–20	7	16	16
2020–21	8	19	16
2021–22	not published	17	16
2022–23	7	18	17
2023–24	8	20	17
2024–25	13	19	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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