Surgery Waits

Skin lesion removal waiting time at The Children's Hospital at Westmead

The median wait for skin lesion removal — published by the source as "Skin lesion - excision of" — at this public hospital in the Westmead area of New South Wales was 91 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
91 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
67 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
6.0%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 208 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 81 days in 2016–17 to 91 days in 2024–25 — up 12% — while the national median rose from 25 days to 26 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Westmead Hospital, about 0 km away, at 28 days. Here, 6.0% 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

Median wait, long waits and volume for Skin lesion - excision of, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
The Children's Hospital at Westmead91 days6.0%67 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 The Children's Hospital at Westmead, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays0501001502002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25The Children's Hospital at Westmead 91NSW 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 periodThe Children's Hospital at Westmead (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–17812925
2017–18782925
2018–191563025
2019–20922824
2020–21843025
2021–22612823
2022–231292926
2023–24993026
2024–25913026

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

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