Skin lesion removal waiting time at Clare Hospital
Half of patients at Clare Hospital waited 22 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 Clare area of South Australia.
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
- 22 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 76 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 46 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has fallen from 40 days in 2017–18 to 22 days in 2024–25 — down 45% — while the national median rose from 25 days to 26 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Gawler Health Service, about 86 km away, at 15 days. Here, 0.0% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clare Hospital | 22 days | 0.0% | 76 surgeries |
| South Australia (all public hospitals) | 27 days | 1.4% | 4397 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.
Angaston District Hospital, SA · about 85 km away: 35 days
Gawler Health Service, SA · about 86 km away: 15 days
Northern Yorke Peninsula Health Service (Wallaroo), SA · about 91 km away: 27 days
Port Pirie Regional Health Service, SA · about 92 km away: 34 days
Lyell McEwin Hospital, SA · about 102 km away: 72 days
Modbury Hospital, SA · about 112 km away: 29 days
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, SA · about 117 km away: 22 days
Women's and Children's Hospital, SA · about 120 km away: 77 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Clare Hospital
- SA
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Clare Hospital (days) | SA (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | not published | 22 | 25 |
| 2017–18 | 40 | 22 | 25 |
| 2018–19 | 61 | 22 | 25 |
| 2019–20 | 37 | 21 | 24 |
| 2020–21 | 19 | 20 | 25 |
| 2021–22 | 9 | 23 | 23 |
| 2022–23 | 17 | 27 | 26 |
| 2023–24 | 17 | 27 | 26 |
| 2024–25 | 22 | 27 | 26 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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