Surgery Waits

Breast reconstruction waiting time at St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]

The median wait for breast reconstruction at this public hospital in the Fitzroy area of Victoria was 8 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
8 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
11 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 34 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 1 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 224 days in 2018–19 to 8 days in 2024–25 — down 96% — while the national median rose from 111 days to 146 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Breast reconstruction" 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 Breast reconstruction, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]8 daysnot published11 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)84 days26.8%564 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)146 days25.7%1192 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 146 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 breast reconstruction by financial year at St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne], compared with Victoria and Australiadays0631251882502016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne] 8VIC 84Australia 146
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Breast reconstruction, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodSt Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne] (days)VIC (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not published11096
2017–18not published141118
2018–19224117111
2019–20192158137
2020–21not published83113
2021–22not published27103
2022–2319110154
2023–2413122149
2024–25884146

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

All surgery at St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne] · Breast reconstruction across Australia · Breast reconstruction in Victoria