Mastectomy waiting time at Royal Hobart Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Mastectomy 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: 25 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 33 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 97 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 82 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 Mastectomy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Royal Hobart Hospital	25 days	not published	33 surgeries
Tasmania (all public hospitals)	23 days	2.5%	121 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	13 days	2.2%	979 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	19 days	1.9%	4551 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 19 days marks the national median.

Launceston General HospitalTAS · about 160 km away21 days
North West Regional HospitalTAS · about 236 km away23 days
Latrobe Regional Hospital [Traralgon]VIC · about 523 km away14 days
Frankston HospitalVIC · about 558 km away9 days
University Hospital GeelongVIC · about 582 km away13 days
Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin]VIC · about 584 km away12 days
Maroondah Hospital [East Ringwood]VIC · about 591 km away6 days
Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 594 km away8 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 1000 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 Mastectomy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Royal Hobart Hospital (days)	TAS (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	16	not published	16
2017–18	22	not published	16
2018–19	21	not published	17
2019–20	16	18	17
2020–21	24	25	18
2021–22	24	not published	17
2022–23	33	22	17
2023–24	24	21	19
2024–25	25	23	19

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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