Skin lesion removal waiting time at Emerald Hospital
Half of patients at Emerald 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 Emerald 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
- 36 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 29 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has fallen from 27 days in 2016–17 to 20 days in 2024–25 — down 26% — 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emerald Hospital | 20 days | not published | 36 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.
Rockhampton Hospital, QLD · about 239 km away: 23 days
Mackay Base Hospital, QLD · about 283 km away: 29 days
Gladstone Hospital, QLD · about 317 km away: 27 days
Roma Hospital, QLD · about 345 km away: 22 days
Proserpine Hospital, QLD · about 349 km away: 26 days
Charleville Hospital, QLD · about 375 km away: 36 days
Longreach Hospital, QLD · about 397 km away: 27 days
Bundaberg Base Hospital, QLD · about 450 km away: 22 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
- Emerald Hospital
- QLD
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Emerald Hospital (days) | QLD (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 27 | 24 | 25 |
| 2017–18 | 27 | 25 | 25 |
| 2018–19 | 26 | 25 | 25 |
| 2019–20 | 15 | 24 | 24 |
| 2020–21 | 27 | 25 | 25 |
| 2021–22 | 34 | 23 | 23 |
| 2022–23 | 35 | 26 | 26 |
| 2023–24 | 34 | 26 | 26 |
| 2024–25 | 20 | 26 | 26 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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