Skin lesion removal waiting time at Tumut Hospital
Half of patients at Tumut Hospital waited 55 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 Tumut 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
- 55 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 34 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Waited more than 365 days
- not published2024–25 · released 28 May 2026 — Reported data did not meet the criteria to calculate this indicator.
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 182 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has fallen from 71 days in 2016–17 to 55 days in 2024–25 — down 23% — while the national median rose from 25 days to 26 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Wagga Wagga Hospital, about 81 km away, at 29 days.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tumut Hospital | 55 days | not published | 34 surgeries |
| New South Wales (all public hospitals) | 30 days | 1.4% | 14673 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.
Cootamundra Hospital, NSW · about 77 km away: 91 days
Wagga Wagga Hospital, NSW · about 81 km away: 29 days
Queanbeyan Hospital, NSW · about 92 km away: 44 days
Young Hospital, NSW · about 110 km away: 69 days
Temora Hospital, NSW · about 114 km away: 69 days
Goulburn Base Hospital, NSW · about 150 km away: 27 days
Albury Wodonga Health [Wodonga Campus], VIC · about 152 km away: 22 days
Cowra Health Service, NSW · about 170 km away: 36 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
Some of these hospitals are in another state — a public hospital referral can cross the border, so ask your GP what that would mean for you. See also where crossing a border cuts the wait most.
How the wait has changed
- Tumut Hospital
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Tumut Hospital (days) | NSW (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 71 | 29 | 25 |
| 2017–18 | 44 | 29 | 25 |
| 2018–19 | 51 | 30 | 25 |
| 2019–20 | 44 | 28 | 24 |
| 2020–21 | 49 | 30 | 25 |
| 2021–22 | 56 | 28 | 23 |
| 2022–23 | 131 | 29 | 26 |
| 2023–24 | 47 | 30 | 26 |
| 2024–25 | 55 | 30 | 26 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
All surgery at Tumut Hospital · Skin lesion removal across Australia · Skin lesion removal in New South Wales · All surgery waits in New South Wales