Surgery Waits

Skin lesion removal waiting times in Western Australia

The median wait for skin lesion removal in Western Australia public hospitals was 33 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The national median was 26 days. The source publishes this surgery as "Skin lesion - excision of".

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

32 public hospitals in Western Australia reported skin lesion removal in 2024–25. They are ranked by their published median wait alone, shortest first.

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.

4 hospitals have no published median wait for this surgery in this period. They are listed last, marked "not published", and are never ranked.

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 26 days marks the national median.

Skin lesion - excision of in Western Australia public hospitals, 2024–25. Hospitals with the same median share a rank and the next rank is skipped. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Rank Hospital Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
1 Collie Hospital 11 days not published 13 surgeries
2 Hedland Health Campus 15 days not published 34 surgeries
2 St John of God Midland Public Hospital 15 days 4.0% 225 surgeries
4 Kalgoorlie Health Campus 17 days not published 29 surgeries
5 Geraldton Hospital 19 days 0.0% 321 surgeries
6 Karratha Health Campus 21 days 0.0% 105 surgeries
7 Joondalup Health Campus (Public) 25 days 0.0% 358 surgeries
7 Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus 25 days 3.2% 565 surgeries
9 Peel Health Campus 28 days 0.5% 583 surgeries
10 Broome Hospital 29 days not published 46 surgeries
10 Northam Hospital 29 days not published 17 surgeries
10 Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 29 days 1.0% 606 surgeries
13 Esperance Hospital 30 days not published 34 surgeries
14 Bentley Health Service 31 days 3.4% 384 surgeries
14 Fiona Stanley Hospital 31 days 1.9% 1197 surgeries
14 Kununurra Hospital 31 days not published 22 surgeries
17 Busselton Health Campus 33 days 1.9% 212 surgeries
17 Osborne Park Hospital 33 days 3.3% 389 surgeries
19 Katanning Hospital 34 days 0.0% 73 surgeries
20 Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 36 days 1.9% 211 surgeries
21 Carnarvon Hospital 37 days 0.0% 50 surgeries
22 Merredin Hospital 43 days not published 32 surgeries
22 Narrogin Hospital 43 days 0.0% 88 surgeries
24 Bunbury Hospital 48 days 0.0% 135 surgeries
25 Rockingham General Hospital 72 days 1.5% 652 surgeries
26 Albany Hospital 74 days 1.6% 371 surgeries
27 Perth Children's Hospital 84 days 6.7% 163 surgeries
28 Fremantle Hospital and Health Service 86 days 5.4% 92 surgeries
unranked Bridgetown Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Derby Hospital not published not published 9 surgeries
unranked Margaret River Hospital not published not published 7 surgeries
unranked Warren Hospital not published not published 5 surgeries

Ranked by area in Western Australia: near Murdoch · near Nedlands · near the Perth CBD.

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The median wait for skin lesion removal in Western Australia public hospitals was 33 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

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Surgery Waits, "Skin lesion removal waiting times in Western Australia", 2024–25 data released 28 May 2026, https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/skin-lesion-removal/wa/, accessed 28 May 2026.

Attribution: Surgery Waits (https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/skin-lesion-removal/wa/), 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.

Waiting times differ across state borders, and a referral can cross one — read what that means. Compare with every other state, or see every surgery reported in Western Australia.