Skin lesion removal waiting time at Maroondah Hospital [East Ringwood]
Half of patients at Maroondah Hospital [East Ringwood] waited 23 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 Ringwood East area of Victoria.
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
- 23 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 461 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Waited more than 365 days
- 0.4%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 62 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has risen from 18 days in 2016–17 to 23 days in 2024–25 — up 28% — while the national median rose from 25 days to 26 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Austin Hospital [Heidelberg], about 18 km away, at 21 days. Here, 0.4% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maroondah Hospital [East Ringwood] | 23 days | 0.4% | 461 surgeries |
| Victoria (all public hospitals) | 20 days | 1.6% | 15465 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.
Blackburn Public Surgical Centre, VIC · about 9 km away: 47 days
Yarra Ranges Health, VIC · about 10 km away: 35 days
Angliss Hospital, VIC · about 11 km away: 79 days
Box Hill Hospital, VIC · about 12 km away: 23 days
Monash Medical Centre [Clayton], VIC · about 16 km away: 67 days
Austin Hospital [Heidelberg], VIC · about 18 km away: 21 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West], VIC · about 19 km away: 20 days
Dandenong Hospital, VIC · about 19 km away: 18 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Maroondah Hospital [East Ringwood]
- VIC
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Maroondah Hospital [East Ringwood] (days) | VIC (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 18 | 22 | 25 |
| 2017–18 | 18 | 21 | 25 |
| 2018–19 | 17 | 20 | 25 |
| 2019–20 | 15 | 20 | 24 |
| 2020–21 | 20 | 20 | 25 |
| 2021–22 | 16 | 18 | 23 |
| 2022–23 | 22 | 20 | 26 |
| 2023–24 | 18 | 19 | 26 |
| 2024–25 | 23 | 20 | 26 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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