Skin lesion removal waiting time at Blacktown Hospital
Half of patients at Blacktown Hospital waited 56 days or less for skin lesion removal in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Skin lesion - excision of". This public hospital is in the Blacktown area of New South Wales.
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
- 56 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 15 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Waited more than 365 days
- not published2024–25 · released 28 May 2026 — Reported data did not meet the criteria to calculate this indicator.
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 184 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has fallen from 82 days in 2016–17 to 56 days in 2024–25 — down 32% — while the national median rose from 25 days to 26 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Westmead Hospital, about 7 km away, at 28 days.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blacktown Hospital | 56 days | not published | 15 surgeries |
| New South Wales (all public hospitals) | 30 days | 1.4% | 14673 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 26 days | 1.3% | 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.
Westmead Hospital, NSW · about 7 km away: 28 days
The Children's Hospital at Westmead, NSW · about 7 km away: 91 days
Mount Druitt Hospital, NSW · about 8 km away: 40 days
Fairfield Hospital, NSW · about 9 km away: 166 days
Auburn Hospital, NSW · about 14 km away: 39 days
Ryde Hospital, NSW · about 16 km away: 49 days
Liverpool Hospital, NSW · about 16 km away: 31 days
Concord Repatriation Hospital, NSW · about 18 km away: 37 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Blacktown Hospital
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Blacktown Hospital (days) | NSW (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 82 | 29 | 25 |
| 2017–18 | 79 | 29 | 25 |
| 2018–19 | 35 | 30 | 25 |
| 2019–20 | 47 | 28 | 24 |
| 2020–21 | 77 | 30 | 25 |
| 2021–22 | 79 | 28 | 23 |
| 2022–23 | 108 | 29 | 26 |
| 2023–24 | 70 | 30 | 26 |
| 2024–25 | 56 | 30 | 26 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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