Breast lump removal waiting time at Flinders Medical Centre

The median wait for breast lump removal — published by the source as "Breast lump - excision and/or biopsy" — at this public hospital in the Bedford Park area of South Australia was 33 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: 33 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 46 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 103 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 37 days in 2016–17 to 33 days in 2024–25 — down 11% — while the national median rose from 15 days to 17 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, about 16 km away, at 19 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.

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
Flinders Medical Centre	33 days	not published	46 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)	20 days	0.3%	626 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	14 days	0.3%	3464 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	17 days	0.2%	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.

The Queen Elizabeth HospitalSA · about 16 km away19 days
Modbury HospitalSA · about 24 km away20 days
Lyell McEwin HospitalSA · about 32 km away20 days
The Bendigo HospitalVIC · about 549 km away14 days
Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital]VIC · about 551 km away22 days
University Hospital GeelongVIC · about 623 km away14 days
Werribee Mercy HospitalVIC · about 634 km away14 days
Goulburn Valley Health [Shepparton]VIC · about 635 km away15 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 1000 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

Some of these hospitals are in another state — a public hospital referral can cross the border, so ask your GP what that would mean for you.

How the wait has changed

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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 period	Flinders Medical Centre (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	37	19	15
2017–18	25	19	15
2018–19	not published	16	16
2019–20	27	16	16
2020–21	32	19	16
2021–22	23	18	16
2022–23	19	19	17
2023–24	29	19	17
2024–25	33	20	17

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

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