Mastectomy waiting time at Royal Hospital for Women

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: 22 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 70 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 Hospital for Women	22 days	not published	33 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	21 days	1.8%	1183 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.

Prince of Wales HospitalNSW · about 0 km away17 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst]NSW · about 5 km away31 days
Royal Prince Alfred HospitalNSW · about 6 km away8 days
St George Hospital NSWNSW · about 11 km away21 days
Royal North Shore HospitalNSW · about 12 km away15 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 16 km away49 days
Auburn HospitalNSW · about 20 km away22 days
Bankstown Lidcombe HospitalNSW · about 20 km away20 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 Mastectomy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Royal Hospital for Women (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	17	16	16
2017–18	17	18	16
2018–19	13	20	17
2019–20	13	18	17
2020–21	50	21	18
2021–22	20	19	17
2022–23	13	20	17
2023–24	21	21	19
2024–25	22	21	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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