Surgery Waits

Skin lesion removal waiting time at Angliss Hospital

The median wait for skin lesion removal — published by the source as "Skin lesion - excision of" — at this public hospital in the Upper Ferntree Gully area of Victoria was 79 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
79 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
140 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
2.1%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 203 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 26 days in 2016–17 to 79 days in 2024–25 — up 204% — while the national median rose from 25 days to 26 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Maroondah Hospital [East Ringwood], about 11 km away, at 23 days. Here, 2.1% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 1.3%.

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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
Angliss Hospital79 days2.1%140 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)20 days1.6%15465 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 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for skin lesion - excision of by financial year at Angliss Hospital, compared with Victoria and Australiadays03163941252016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Angliss Hospital 79VIC 20Australia 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 periodAngliss Hospital (days)VIC (days)Australia (days)
2016–17262225
2017–18262125
2018–19292025
2019–20382024
2020–21532025
2021–22271823
2022–231162026
2023–24231926
2024–25792026

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

All surgery at Angliss Hospital · Skin lesion removal across Australia · Skin lesion removal in Victoria