Skin lesion removal waiting time at Orange Health Service
Half of patients at Orange Health Service 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 Spring Creek 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
- 22 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 128 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Waited more than 365 days
- 1.6%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 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 28 days in 2016–17 to 22 days in 2024–25 — down 21% — 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, 1.6% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orange Health Service | 22 days | 1.6% | 128 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.
Bathurst Base Hospital, NSW · about 46 km away: 27 days
Cowra Health Service, NSW · about 68 km away: 36 days
Lachlan Health Service - Parkes, NSW · about 88 km away: 58 days
Mudgee Health Service, NSW · about 92 km away: 41 days
Lithgow Hospital, NSW · about 98 km away: 24 days
Lachlan Health Service - Forbes, NSW · about 101 km away: 27 days
Blue Mountains Hospital, NSW · about 122 km away: 62 days
Dubbo Hospital, NSW · about 128 km away: 27 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Orange Health Service
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Orange Health Service (days) | NSW (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 28 | 29 | 25 |
| 2017–18 | 29 | 29 | 25 |
| 2018–19 | 19 | 30 | 25 |
| 2019–20 | 22 | 28 | 24 |
| 2020–21 | 39 | 30 | 25 |
| 2021–22 | 27 | 28 | 23 |
| 2022–23 | 26 | 29 | 26 |
| 2023–24 | 21 | 30 | 26 |
| 2024–25 | 22 | 30 | 26 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
All surgery at Orange Health Service · Skin lesion removal across Australia · Skin lesion removal in New South Wales · All surgery waits in New South Wales