Skin lesion - excision of waiting time at Broken Hill Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Skin lesion - excision of at this public hospital, with the nearest alternatives that published a figure.

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

Median wait: 30 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 58 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 0.0%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 122 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

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
Broken Hill Hospital	30 days	0.0%	58 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	30 days	1.4%	14673 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)	27 days	1.4%	4397 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.

Riverland General HospitalSA · about 271 km away34 days
Clare HospitalSA · about 338 km away22 days
Port Pirie Regional Health ServiceSA · about 351 km away34 days
Port Augusta Hospital and Regional Health ServicesSA · about 352 km away18 days
Angaston District HospitalSA · about 361 km away35 days
Whyalla Hospital and Health ServicesSA · about 383 km away32 days
Gawler Health ServiceSA · about 387 km away15 days
Lyell McEwin HospitalSA · about 405 km away72 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 500 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

Some of these hospitals are in another state. Public hospital referrals can cross state borders. Ask your general practitioner (GP) what that would mean for you — see can my GP refer me to a different hospital?

How the wait has changed

Broken Hill Hospital
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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 period	Broken Hill Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	52	29	25
2017–18	31	29	25
2018–19	50	30	25
2019–20	52	28	24
2020–21	51	30	25
2021–22	50	28	23
2022–23	51	29	26
2023–24	50	30	26
2024–25	30	30	26

What is not here

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

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