Breast lump removal waiting time at Joondalup Health Campus (Public)

The median wait for breast lump removal — published by the source as "Breast lump - excision and/or biopsy" — at this public hospital in the Joondalup area of Western Australia was 11 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: 11 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 55 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 7 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 47 days in 2016–17 to 11 days in 2024–25 — down 77% — while the national median rose from 15 days to 17 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period. Here, 0.0% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 0.2%.

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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
Joondalup Health Campus (Public)	11 days	0.0%	55 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)	19 days	0.2%	1255 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.

Osborne Park HospitalWA · about 17 km away22 days
Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street CampusWA · about 26 km away18 days
Sir Charles Gairdner HospitalWA · about 26 km away14 days
Bentley Health ServiceWA · about 33 km away21 days
Fremantle Hospital and Health ServiceWA · about 36 km away20 days
Fiona Stanley HospitalWA · about 38 km away20 days
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial HospitalWA · about 50 km away18 days
Peel Health CampusWA · about 88 km away13 days

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

How the wait has changed

Joondalup Health Campus (Public)
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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	Joondalup Health Campus (Public) (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	47	15	15
2017–18	81	18	15
2018–19	77	19	16
2019–20	62	18	16
2020–21	46	17	16
2021–22	34	16	16
2022–23	not published	18	17
2023–24	10	18	17
2024–25	11	19	17

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

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