Mastectomy waiting time at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital

The median wait for mastectomy at this public hospital in the Kings Park area of Western Australia was 14 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: 14 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 115 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 2.6%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 14 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 11 days in 2016–17 to 14 days in 2024–25 — up 27% — while the national median rose from 16 days to 19 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Peel Health Campus, about 63 km away, at 8 days. Here, 2.6% 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
Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital	14 days	2.6%	115 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 5 km away20 days
Osborne Park HospitalWA · about 9 km away16 days
Bentley Health ServiceWA · about 11 km away17 days
Fremantle Hospital and Health ServiceWA · about 12 km away20 days
Fiona Stanley HospitalWA · about 12 km away21 days
Joondalup Health Campus (Public)WA · about 26 km away14 days
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial HospitalWA · about 27 km away19 days
Peel Health CampusWA · about 63 km away8 days

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

How the wait has changed

Sir Charles Gairdner 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	Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	11	14	16
2017–18	14	18	16
2018–19	14	18	17
2019–20	12	16	17
2020–21	12	17	18
2021–22	11	14	17
2022–23	14	17	17
2023–24	14	18	19
2024–25	14	18	19

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

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