Mastectomy waiting time at Auburn Hospital

The median wait for mastectomy at this public hospital in the Auburn area of New South Wales was 22 days in 2024–25.

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

These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.

Median wait: 22 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 21 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 97 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 70 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 16 days in 2016–17 to 22 days in 2024–25 — up 38% — while the national median rose from 16 days to 19 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital, about 8 km away, at 20 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Mastectomy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Auburn Hospital	22 days	not published	21 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	21 days	1.8%	1183 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	19 days	1.9%	4551 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 19 days marks the national median.

Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 6 km away49 days
Westmead HospitalNSW · about 7 km away27 days
Bankstown Lidcombe HospitalNSW · about 8 km away20 days
Liverpool HospitalNSW · about 12 km away22 days
Fairfield HospitalNSW · about 12 km away20 days
Royal Prince Alfred HospitalNSW · about 14 km away8 days
Royal North Shore HospitalNSW · about 15 km away15 days
St George Hospital NSWNSW · about 15 km away21 days

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

How the wait has changed

Auburn Hospital
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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Mastectomy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Auburn Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	16	16	16
2017–18	16	18	16
2018–19	22	20	17
2019–20	14	18	17
2020–21	21	21	18
2021–22	23	19	17
2022–23	22	20	17
2023–24	20	21	19
2024–25	22	21	19

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

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