Mastectomy waiting time at Goulburn Valley Health [Shepparton]

The median wait for mastectomy at this public hospital in the Shepparton area of Victoria was 14 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: 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 97 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 14 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 10 days in 2016–17 to 14 days in 2024–25 — up 40% — while the national median rose from 16 days to 19 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Northeast Health Wangaratta, about 81 km away, at 13 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
Goulburn Valley Health [Shepparton]	14 days	not published	13 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.

Northeast Health WangarattaVIC · about 81 km away13 days
The Bendigo HospitalVIC · about 109 km away16 days
Albury Wodonga Health [Wodonga Campus]VIC · about 135 km away21 days
The Northern Hospital [Epping]VIC · about 148 km away22 days
Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]VIC · about 158 km away13 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 158 km away19 days
Maroondah Hospital [East Ringwood]VIC · about 161 km away6 days
Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 163 km away8 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	Goulburn Valley Health [Shepparton] (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	10	14	16
2017–18	10	15	16
2018–19	13	14	17
2019–20	8	14	17
2020–21	9	13	18
2021–22	not published	14	17
2022–23	9	13	17
2023–24	15	14	19
2024–25	14	13	19

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

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