Breast lump removal waiting time at Werribee Mercy 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 Hoppers Crossing area of Victoria, 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: 14 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 39 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 105 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 18 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 16 days in 2016–17 to 14 days in 2024–25 — down 13% — while the national median rose from 15 days to 17 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, about 25 km away, at 10 days.

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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
Werribee Mercy Hospital	14 days	not published	39 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	14 days	0.3%	3464 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.

Williamstown HospitalVIC · about 17 km away34 days
Sunshine HospitalVIC · about 18 km away16 days
Royal Women's Hospital [Parkville]VIC · about 25 km away17 days
Peter MacCallum Cancer CentreVIC · about 25 km away10 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 25 km away13 days
The AlfredVIC · about 25 km away9 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 26 km away7 days
St Vincent's On the ParkVIC · about 26 km away6 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	Werribee Mercy Hospital (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	16	13	15
2017–18	16	13	15
2018–19	28	14	16
2019–20	19	14	16
2020–21	18	13	16
2021–22	16	14	16
2022–23	27	14	17
2023–24	21	14	17
2024–25	14	14	17

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

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