Breast lump removal waiting times in South Australia

Public hospitals in South Australia ranked by their median wait for breast lump removal, published by the source as "Breast lump - excision and/or biopsy".

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026

9 public hospitals in South Australia reported breast lump removal in 2024–25. The state median was 20 days; the national median was 17 days.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Breast lump - excision and/or biopsy" and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.

5 hospitals have no published median wait for this surgery in this period. They are listed last, marked "not published", and are never ranked.

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 17 days marks the national median.

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital19 days
Lyell McEwin Hospital20 days
Modbury Hospital20 days
Flinders Medical Centre33 days
Naracoorte Health Servicenot published
Port Pirie Regional Health Servicenot published
Royal Adelaide Hospitalnot published
Whyalla Hospital and Health Servicesnot published
Women's and Children's Hospitalnot published

Breast lump - excision and/or biopsy in South Australia public hospitals, 2024–25. Hospitals with the same median share a rank and the next rank is skipped. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Rank	Hospital	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
1	The Queen Elizabeth Hospital	19 days	0.3%	317 surgeries
2	Lyell McEwin Hospital	20 days	0.0%	174 surgeries
2	Modbury Hospital	20 days	0.0%	77 surgeries
4	Flinders Medical Centre	33 days	not published	46 surgeries
unranked	Naracoorte Health Service	not published	not published	not published
unranked	Port Pirie Regional Health Service	not published	not published	not published
unranked	Royal Adelaide Hospital	not published	not published	5 surgeries
unranked	Whyalla Hospital and Health Services	not published	not published	not published
unranked	Women's and Children's Hospital	not published	not published	not published

What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

Waiting times differ across state borders, and a referral can cross one — read what that means. Compare with every other state, or see every surgery reported in South Australia.