Breast lump - excision and/or biopsy waiting time at St George Hospital NSW

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: 19 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 209 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 59 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
St George Hospital NSW	19 days	0.0%	209 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 Hospital for WomenNSW · about 11 km away18 days
Bankstown Lidcombe HospitalNSW · about 11 km away47 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst]NSW · about 13 km away21 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 15 km away15 days
Royal North Shore HospitalNSW · about 17 km away13 days
Liverpool HospitalNSW · about 19 km away23 days
Westmead HospitalNSW · about 23 km away22 days
Fairfield HospitalNSW · about 24 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	St George Hospital NSW (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	13	16	15
2017–18	15	17	15
2018–19	15	18	16
2019–20	15	16	16
2020–21	15	19	16
2021–22	14	17	16
2022–23	15	18	17
2023–24	15	20	17
2024–25	19	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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