Surgery Waits

Mastectomy waiting time at Orange Health Service

The median wait for mastectomy at this public hospital in the Spring Creek area of New South Wales was 21 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
21 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
27 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 58 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 15 days in 2016–17 to 21 days in 2024–25 — up 40% — while the national median rose from 16 days to 19 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Dubbo Hospital, about 128 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
Orange Health Service21 daysnot published27 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.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for mastectomy by financial year at Orange Health Service, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays081523302016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Orange Health Service 21NSW 21Australia 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 periodOrange Health Service (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–17151616
2017–18161816
2018–19202017
2019–20231817
2020–21272118
2021–22151917
2022–23252017
2023–24152119
2024–25212119

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

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