Surgery Waits

Mastectomy waiting time at North Canberra Hospital

The median wait for mastectomy at this public hospital in the Bruce area of Australian Capital Territory was 22 days in 2024–25.

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

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

Median wait
22 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
84 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
2.4%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 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 21 days in 2023–24 to 22 days in 2024–25 — up 5% — while the national median stayed at 19 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Moruya Hospital, about 114 km away, at 19 days. Here, 2.4% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 1.9%.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Mastectomy" and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Mastectomy, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
North Canberra Hospital22 days2.4%84 surgeries
Australian Capital Territory (all public hospitals)not publishednot published88 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)21 days1.8%1183 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)19 days1.9%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.

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

Some of these hospitals are in another state — a public hospital referral can cross the border, so ask your GP what that would mean for you.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for mastectomy by financial year at North Canberra Hospital, compared with Australian Capital Territory and Australiadays061319252016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25North Canberra Hospital 22Australia 19
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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 periodNorth Canberra Hospital (days)ACT (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not reported for this periodnot published16
2017–18not reported for this periodnot published16
2018–19not reported for this periodnot published17
2019–20not reported for this periodnot published17
2020–21not reported for this periodnot published18
2021–22not reported for this periodnot published17
2022–23not reported for this periodnot published17
2023–2421not published19
2024–2522not published19

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

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