Surgery Waits

Skin lesion removal waiting time at St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst]

The median wait for skin lesion removal — published by the source as "Skin lesion - excision of" — at this public hospital in the Darlinghurst area of New South Wales was 20 days in 2024–25.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released

These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.

Median wait
20 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
467 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
0.2%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 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 25 days in 2016–17 to 20 days in 2024–25 — down 20% — while the national median rose from 25 days to 26 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, about 4 km away, at 16 days. Here, 0.2% 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

Median wait, long waits and volume for Skin lesion - excision of, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst]20 days0.2%467 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)30 days1.4%14673 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)26 days1.3%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.

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for skin lesion - excision of by financial year at St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst], compared with New South Wales and Australiadays0102030402016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst] 20NSW 30Australia 26
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Skin lesion - excision of, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodSt Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst] (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–17252925
2017–18242925
2018–19383025
2019–20252824
2020–21303025
2021–22162823
2022–23232926
2023–24223026
2024–25203026

Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.

All surgery at St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst] · Skin lesion removal across Australia · Skin lesion removal in New South Wales