Breast lump removal waiting time at Tweed Valley Hospital

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 Tweed Heads 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: 17 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 51 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 45 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 13 days in 2016–17 to 17 days in 2024–25 — up 31% — while the national median rose from 15 days to 17 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Robina Hospital, about 20 km away, at 15 days. Here, 0.0% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 0.2%.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick “Breast lump - excision and/or biopsy” and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.

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
Tweed Valley Hospital	17 days	0.0%	51 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	19 days	0.1%	2784 surgeries
Queensland (all public hospitals)	20 days	0.3%	2328 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.

Robina HospitalQLD · about 20 km away15 days
Lismore Base HospitalNSW · about 75 km away25 days
Redland HospitalQLD · about 77 km away20 days
Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee HospitalQLD · about 84 km away15 days
Princess Alexandra HospitalQLD · about 91 km away16 days
Mater Adult HospitalQLD · about 92 km away16 days
Surgical Treatment and Rehabilitation ServiceQLD · about 96 km away20 days
Royal Brisbane & Women's HospitalQLD · about 96 km away17 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

Some of these hospitals are in another state — a public hospital referral can cross the border, so ask your GP what that would mean for you.

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	Tweed Valley Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	13	16	15
2017–18	14	17	15
2018–19	17	18	16
2019–20	16	16	16
2020–21	21	19	16
2021–22	22	17	16
2022–23	22	18	17
2023–24	21	20	17
2024–25	17	19	17

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

All surgery at Tweed Valley Hospital · Breast lump removal across Australia · Breast lump removal in New South Wales