Surgery Waits

Skin lesion removal waiting time at Albany Hospital

The median wait for skin lesion removal — published by the source as "Skin lesion - excision of" — at this public hospital in the Spencer Park area of Western Australia was 74 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
74 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
371 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
1.6%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 214 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 200 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 57 days in 2016–17 to 74 days in 2024–25 — up 30% — while the national median rose from 25 days to 26 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Katanning Hospital, about 150 km away, at 34 days. Here, 1.6% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 1.3%.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Skin lesion - excision of" 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 Skin lesion - excision of, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Albany Hospital74 days1.6%371 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)33 days1.9%7125 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)26 days1.3%59852 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 26 days marks the national median.

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 500 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for skin lesion - excision of by financial year at Albany Hospital, compared with Western Australia and Australiadays02550751002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Albany Hospital 74WA 33Australia 26
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Skin lesion - excision of, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodAlbany Hospital (days)WA (days)Australia (days)
2016–17573025
2017–18653425
2018–19653025
2019–20592524
2020–21372825
2021–22612723
2022–23773126
2023–24583226
2024–25743326

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

All surgery at Albany Hospital · Skin lesion removal across Australia · Skin lesion removal in Western Australia