Skin lesion removal waiting time at Cairns Hospital
Half of patients at Cairns Hospital waited 20 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 Cairns North area of Queensland.
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
- 20 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 1031 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Waited more than 365 days
- 0.6%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 29 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has risen from 13 days in 2016–17 to 20 days in 2024–25 — up 54% — while the national median rose from 25 days to 26 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period. Here, 0.6% 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
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cairns Hospital | 20 days | 0.6% | 1031 surgeries |
| Queensland (all public hospitals) | 26 days | 0.7% | 17290 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.
Mareeba Hospital, QLD · about 38 km away: 29 days
Atherton Hospital, QLD · about 50 km away: 28 days
Innisfail Hospital, QLD · about 73 km away: 56 days
Townsville University Hospital, QLD · about 288 km away: 37 days
Proserpine Hospital, QLD · about 488 km away: 26 days
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
- Cairns Hospital
- QLD
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Cairns Hospital (days) | QLD (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 13 | 24 | 25 |
| 2017–18 | 11 | 25 | 25 |
| 2018–19 | 11 | 25 | 25 |
| 2019–20 | 16 | 24 | 24 |
| 2020–21 | 20 | 25 | 25 |
| 2021–22 | 22 | 23 | 23 |
| 2022–23 | 23 | 26 | 26 |
| 2023–24 | 22 | 26 | 26 |
| 2024–25 | 20 | 26 | 26 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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