Skin lesion removal waiting time at Blackburn Public Surgical Centre
The median wait for skin lesion removal — published by the source as "Skin lesion - excision of" — at this public hospital in the Blackburn South area of Victoria was 47 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
- 47 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 165 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Waited more than 365 days
- 0.0%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 173 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has fallen from 212 days in 2022–23 to 47 days in 2024–25 — down 78% — while the national median stayed at 26 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Box Hill Hospital, about 4 km away, at 23 days. Here, 0.0% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 1.3%.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blackburn Public Surgical Centre | 47 days | 0.0% | 165 surgeries |
| Victoria (all public hospitals) | 20 days | 1.6% | 15465 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 26 days | 1.3% | 59852 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Blackburn Public Surgical Centre
- VIC
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Blackburn Public Surgical Centre (days) | VIC (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | not reported for this period | 22 | 25 |
| 2017–18 | not reported for this period | 21 | 25 |
| 2018–19 | not reported for this period | 20 | 25 |
| 2019–20 | not reported for this period | 20 | 24 |
| 2020–21 | not reported for this period | 20 | 25 |
| 2021–22 | not reported for this period | 18 | 23 |
| 2022–23 | 212 | 20 | 26 |
| 2023–24 | 47 | 19 | 26 |
| 2024–25 | 47 | 20 | 26 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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