Surgery Waits

Mastectomy waiting time at Port Macquarie Base Hospital

The median wait for mastectomy at this public hospital in the Port Macquarie area of New South Wales was 15 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
15 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
16 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 22 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 14 days in 2016–17 to 15 days in 2024–25 — up 7% — while the national median rose from 16 days to 19 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Belmont Hospital, about 210 km away, at 14 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
Port Macquarie Base Hospital15 daysnot published16 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 Port Macquarie Base Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays061319252016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Port Macquarie Base Hospital 15NSW 21Australia 19
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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 periodPort Macquarie Base Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–17141616
2017–18211816
2018–19142017
2019–20201817
2020–21202118
2021–22231917
2022–23172017
2023–24222119
2024–25152119

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

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