Surgery Waits

Breast lump removal waiting time at Manning 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 Taree South area of New South Wales was 22 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
22 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
10 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 85 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 16 days in 2016–17 to 22 days in 2024–25 — up 38% — while the national median rose from 15 days to 17 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Port Macquarie Base Hospital, about 65 km away, at 21 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
Manning Hospital22 daysnot published10 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 Manning Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays081523302016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Manning Hospital 22NSW 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 periodManning Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–17161615
2017–18151715
2018–19281816
2019–20221616
2020–21261916
2021–22251716
2022–23261817
2023–24222017
2024–25221917

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

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