Mastectomy waiting time at St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]

The median wait for mastectomy at this public hospital in the Fitzroy area of Victoria was 16 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: 16 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 29 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 28 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 6 days in 2016–17 to 16 days in 2024–25 — up 167% — while the national median rose from 16 days to 19 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, about 2 km away, at 14 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
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]	16 days	not published	29 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	13 days	2.2%	979 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.

Peter MacCallum Cancer CentreVIC · about 2 km away14 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 2 km away19 days
Royal Women's Hospital [Parkville]VIC · about 2 km away14 days
The AlfredVIC · about 4 km away5 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 8 km away19 days
Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]VIC · about 9 km away13 days
Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 13 km away8 days
Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin]VIC · about 15 km away12 days

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

How the wait has changed

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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	St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne] (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	6	14	16
2017–18	7	15	16
2018–19	14	14	17
2019–20	14	14	17
2020–21	14	13	18
2021–22	11	14	17
2022–23	16	13	17
2023–24	9	14	19
2024–25	16	13	19

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

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