Surgery Waits

Mastectomy waiting time at Nepean Hospital

The median wait for mastectomy at this public hospital in the Cambridge Park area of New South Wales was 18 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
18 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
42 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 38 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 20 days in 2016–17 to 18 days in 2024–25 — down 10% — while the national median rose from 16 days to 19 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Mount Druitt Hospital, about 11 km away, at 15 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
Nepean Hospital18 daysnot published42 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)21 days1.8%1183 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)19 days1.9%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.

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for mastectomy by financial year at Nepean Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays061319252016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Nepean Hospital 18NSW 21Australia 19
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Median wait in days for Mastectomy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodNepean Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–17201616
2017–18211816
2018–19172017
2019–20181817
2020–21172118
2021–22131917
2022–23182017
2023–24202119
2024–25182119

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

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