Surgery Waits

Mastectomy waiting time at The Bendigo Hospital

The median wait for mastectomy at this public hospital in the Bendigo area of Victoria was 16 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
16 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
41 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 fallen from 19 days in 2016–17 to 16 days in 2024–25 — down 16% — while the national median rose from 16 days to 19 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Goulburn Valley Health [Shepparton], about 109 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
The Bendigo Hospital16 daysnot published41 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)13 days2.2%979 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 The Bendigo Hospital, compared with Victoria and Australiadays061319252016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25The Bendigo Hospital 16VIC 13Australia 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 periodThe Bendigo Hospital (days)VIC (days)Australia (days)
2016–17191416
2017–18121516
2018–19161417
2019–20131417
2020–21191318
2021–22221417
2022–23161317
2023–24141419
2024–25161319

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

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