Breast reduction surgery is available through Medicare but the NSW and Victorian health systems say it’s a “cosmetic” or “aesthetic” procedure, putting many women at the back of waiting lists.
, or hip replacement, said Dean, and to limit its availability is “neither fair nor evidence based”.
David Morgan, specialist plastic surgeon and head of the Alfred Hospital’s Maxillofacial Surgery Unit, said breast reduction surgery was considered cosmetic in the public system, meaning women have been “largely precluded from even getting on waiting lists, let alone getting off waiting lists for it”.
He agreed that state policies should be reviewed quickly, “to improve fairness in the long term”. Dean said she recognised backlogs due to the pandemic meant changes would take time to implement. Kate Johnston-Ataata, policy manager at Women’s Health Victoria, said the Flinders University research supported other findings that women who undergo breast reduction report improved psychosocial wellbeing post-operatively.
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