Axillary node dissection waiting times

Public hospital waiting times for Axillary node dissection, nationally and by state.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026

Across Australia, the median wait for Axillary node dissection in public hospitals was 12 days in 2024–25, from 494 surgeries. 0.6% of people waited more than 365 days. 11 public hospitals published a median wait for it.

State by state

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 12 days marks the national median.

Western Australia9 days
Victoria12 days
New South Wales16 days
Northern Territorynot published
South Australianot published

Axillary node dissection in public hospitals by state and territory, 2024–25. States with the same median share a rank. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Rank	State or territory	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
1	Western Australia	9 days	0.0%	169 surgeries
2	Victoria	12 days	0.0%	155 surgeries
3	New South Wales	16 days	0.0%	130 surgeries
unranked	Northern Territory	not published	not published	7 surgeries
unranked	South Australia	not published	not published	33 surgeries

How the wait has changed

Australia
WA
VIC
NSW

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Median wait in days for Axillary node dissection, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Australia (days)	WA (days)	VIC (days)	NSW (days)
2016–17	11	9	9	not published
2017–18	12	11	10	not published
2018–19	13	14	11	not published
2019–20	11	11	10	not published
2020–21	10	not published	not published	not published
2021–22	12	8	13	not published
2022–23	12	9	9	14
2023–24	12	10	12	15
2024–25	12	9	12	16

What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

The source calls this collection “elective surgery”. This site calls it planned surgery, because the surgery is planned in advance rather than optional — the methodology explains the wording.