Breast lump - excision and/or biopsy waiting time at Royal North Shore 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: 122 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 0.0%2024–25 · released 28 May 2026

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
Royal North Shore Hospital	13 days	0.0%	122 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.

St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst]NSW · about 7 km away21 days
Northern Beaches HospitalNSW · about 9 km away13 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 9 km away15 days
Royal Hospital for WomenNSW · about 12 km away18 days
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai HospitalNSW · about 15 km away13 days
St George Hospital NSWNSW · about 17 km away19 days
Westmead HospitalNSW · about 19 km away22 days
Bankstown Lidcombe HospitalNSW · about 20 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	Royal North Shore Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	17	16	15
2017–18	14	17	15
2018–19	14	18	16
2019–20	11	16	16
2020–21	7	19	16
2021–22	8	17	16
2022–23	12	18	17
2023–24	13	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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