Breast lump removal waiting time at Orange Health Service

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 Spring Creek 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: 14 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 47 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 18 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 17 days in 2016–17 to 14 days in 2024–25 — down 18% — while the national median rose from 15 days to 17 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Bathurst Base Hospital, about 46 km away, at 13 days.

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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
Orange Health Service	14 days	not published	47 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.

Bathurst Base HospitalNSW · about 46 km away13 days
Cowra Health ServiceNSW · about 68 km away18 days
Dubbo HospitalNSW · about 128 km away18 days
Nepean HospitalNSW · about 158 km away23 days
Hawkesbury HospitalNSW · about 163 km away21 days
Mount Druitt HospitalNSW · about 168 km away20 days
Goulburn Base HospitalNSW · about 169 km away14 days
Fairfield HospitalNSW · about 178 km away15 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	Orange Health Service (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	17	16	15
2017–18	16	17	15
2018–19	18	18	16
2019–20	21	16	16
2020–21	23	19	16
2021–22	17	17	16
2022–23	15	18	17
2023–24	20	20	17
2024–25	14	19	17

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

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