Skin lesion removal waiting time at Casey Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for skin lesion removal — published by the source as “Skin lesion - excision of” — at this public hospital in the Berwick area of Victoria, 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: 14 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 305 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 1.3%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 4 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 25 days in 2016–17 to 14 days in 2024–25 — down 44% — while the national median rose from 25 days to 26 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period. Here, 1.3% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 1.3%.

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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
Casey Hospital	14 days	1.3%	305 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.

Cranbourne Integrated Care CentreVIC · about 10 km away26 days
Dandenong HospitalVIC · about 14 km away18 days
Angliss HospitalVIC · about 17 km away79 days
Monash Medical Centre [Clayton]VIC · about 21 km away67 days
Frankston Public Surgical CentreVIC · about 22 km away22 days
Frankston HospitalVIC · about 22 km away16 days
Maroondah Hospital [East Ringwood]VIC · about 28 km away23 days
Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin]VIC · about 28 km away21 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

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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	Casey Hospital (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	25	22	25
2017–18	25	21	25
2018–19	23	20	25
2019–20	22	20	24
2020–21	26	20	25
2021–22	21	18	23
2022–23	40	20	26
2023–24	15	19	26
2024–25	14	20	26

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

All surgery at Casey Hospital · Skin lesion removal across Australia · Skin lesion removal in Victoria