Mastectomy waiting time at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital

The median wait for mastectomy at this public hospital in the Woodville South area of South Australia was 20 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: 20 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 131 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 1.5%2024–25 · released 28 May 2026

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 49 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 15 days in 2016–17 to 20 days in 2024–25 — up 33% — while the national median rose from 16 days to 19 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Flinders Medical Centre, about 16 km away, at 16 days. Here, 1.5% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 1.9%.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Mastectomy" 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 Mastectomy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital	20 days	1.5%	131 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)	19 days	2.0%	503 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.

Modbury HospitalSA · about 15 km away21 days
Flinders Medical CentreSA · about 16 km away16 days
Lyell McEwin HospitalSA · about 19 km away18 days
South West Healthcare [Warrnambool]VIC · about 524 km away8 days
The Bendigo HospitalVIC · about 558 km away16 days
Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital]VIC · about 562 km away19 days
University Hospital GeelongVIC · about 635 km away13 days
Goulburn Valley Health [Shepparton]VIC · about 642 km away14 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 Mastectomy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	15	20	16
2017–18	16	18	16
2018–19	18	19	17
2019–20	13	15	17
2020–21	17	17	18
2021–22	20	18	17
2022–23	20	16	17
2023–24	20	19	19
2024–25	20	19	19

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

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