Surgery Waits

Breast lump removal waiting time at Bowral Hospital

The median wait for breast lump removal — published by the source as "Breast lump - excision and/or biopsy" — at this public hospital in the Bowral area of New South Wales was 14 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
14 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
13 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 105 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 18 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 26 days in 2016–17 to 14 days in 2024–25 — down 46% — while the national median rose from 15 days to 17 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Wollongong Hospital, about 43 km away, at 12 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Breast lump - excision and/or biopsy, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Bowral Hospital14 daysnot published13 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)19 days0.1%2784 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)17 days0.2%10691 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 17 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 lump - excision and/or biopsy by financial year at Bowral Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays081523302016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Bowral Hospital 14NSW 19Australia 17
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Breast lump - excision and/or biopsy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodBowral Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–17261615
2017–18201715
2018–19201816
2019–20151616
2020–21271916
2021–22151716
2022–23151817
2023–24142017
2024–25141917

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

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