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title: "Skin lesion removal near Gosford"
description: "Public hospitals in or near Gosford ranked by median wait for skin lesion removal, 2024–25. Shortest wait: 70 days."
url: "https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/skin-lesion-removal/near/gosford/"
---

# Skin lesion removal near Gosford

Near Gosford, [Gosford Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/gosford-hospital/skin-lesion-removal/) had the shortest median wait for skin lesion removal in 2024–25: **70 days** (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026.

2 public hospitals are ranked here by the median wait the source published for skin lesion removal, shortest first, and by nothing else. Every hospital listed is within 120 km of every other. The source publishes this surgery as "Skin lesion - excision of".

## Hospitals in or near Gosford

Skin lesion - excision of at public hospitals in or near Gosford, 2024–25, by median wait. Hospitals with the same median share a rank. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.

| Rank | Hospital | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Where |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | [Gosford Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/gosford-hospital/skin-lesion-removal/) | 70 days | 2.7% | Gosford, NSW. In this area. |
| 2 | [Wyong Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/wyong-hospital/skin-lesion-removal/) | 92 days | 6.0% | Kanwal, NSW. In this area. |

This area covers Gosford Hospital and Wyong Hospital: the hospitals of the source's Local Hospital Network "Central Coast". A shorter median does not mean a hospital will see you sooner: your urgency category and your specialist decide that.

**Cite this page**

> Near Gosford, Gosford Hospital had the shortest median wait for skin lesion removal in 2024–25: 70 days (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

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Surgery Waits, "Skin lesion removal near Gosford: hospital waits", 2024–25 data released 28 May 2026, https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/skin-lesion-removal/near/gosford/, accessed 28 May 2026.
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Attribution: Surgery Waits ([https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/skin-lesion-removal/near/gosford/](https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/skin-lesion-removal/near/gosford/)), from Australian Institute of Health and Welfare MyHospitals data, CC BY 3.0 AU. Reference period 2024–25, released 28 May 2026.

## What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

See [every New South Wales hospital for skin lesion removal](https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/skin-lesion-removal/nsw/), or every hospital in [Central Coast](https://surgerywaits.au/health-service/central-coast/).

## Before you use these figures

Surgery Waits is not medical advice. It republishes official statistics about waiting times that have already happened, and it does not recommend any hospital, doctor or treatment. Your general practitioner (GP) and your treating specialist are the right people to help you decide what is appropriate for you.

**In an emergency call 000.**

Waiting-time figures: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare MyHospitals, licensed under [CC BY 3.0 AU](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/). Quarterly state figures: Queensland Health. Suburb and locality data: Australian Bureau of Statistics. Both licensed under [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Surgery Waits is not connected with any of these organisations.

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