Mastectomy waiting time at Bentley Health Service

The median wait for mastectomy at this public hospital in the St James area of Western Australia was 17 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: 17 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 71 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 97 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 34 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 23 days in 2016–17 to 17 days in 2024–25 — down 26% — while the national median rose from 16 days to 19 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, about 11 km away, at 14 days. Here, 0.0% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 1.9%.

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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
Bentley Health Service	17 days	0.0%	71 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)	18 days	2.1%	576 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.

Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street CampusWA · about 8 km away20 days
Fiona Stanley HospitalWA · about 10 km away21 days
Sir Charles Gairdner HospitalWA · about 11 km away14 days
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial HospitalWA · about 17 km away19 days
Osborne Park HospitalWA · about 18 km away16 days
Fremantle Hospital and Health ServiceWA · about 18 km away20 days
Joondalup Health Campus (Public)WA · about 33 km away14 days
Peel Health CampusWA · about 61 km away8 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 Mastectomy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Bentley Health Service (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	23	14	16
2017–18	23	18	16
2018–19	13	18	17
2019–20	19	16	17
2020–21	22	17	18
2021–22	17	14	17
2022–23	17	17	17
2023–24	19	18	19
2024–25	17	18	19

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

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