Skin lesion removal waiting time at Kurri Kurri Hospital
Half of patients at Kurri Kurri Hospital waited 41 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 Weston 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
- 41 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 337 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 160 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has fallen from 42 days in 2016–17 to 41 days in 2024–25 — down 2% — while the national median rose from 25 days to 26 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Maitland Hospital, about 13 km away, at 22 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kurri Kurri Hospital | 41 days | 0.0% | 337 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.
Cessnock Hospital, NSW · about 11 km away: 42 days
Maitland Hospital, NSW · about 13 km away: 22 days
John Hunter Hospital, NSW · about 24 km away: 23 days
Calvary Mater Newcastle, NSW · about 25 km away: 31 days
Belmont Hospital, NSW · about 28 km away: 54 days
Singleton Hospital, NSW · about 39 km away: 21 days
Wyong Hospital, NSW · about 49 km away: 92 days
Gosford Hospital, NSW · about 67 km away: 70 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Kurri Kurri Hospital
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Kurri Kurri Hospital (days) | NSW (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 42 | 29 | 25 |
| 2017–18 | 27 | 29 | 25 |
| 2018–19 | 29 | 30 | 25 |
| 2019–20 | 35 | 28 | 24 |
| 2020–21 | 30 | 30 | 25 |
| 2021–22 | 28 | 28 | 23 |
| 2022–23 | 26 | 29 | 26 |
| 2023–24 | 37 | 30 | 26 |
| 2024–25 | 41 | 30 | 26 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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