Skin lesion removal waiting time at Clare 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 Clare area of South Australia, 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: 22 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 76 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 46 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 40 days in 2017–18 to 22 days in 2024–25 — down 45% — while the national median rose from 25 days to 26 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Gawler Health Service, about 86 km away, at 15 days. Here, 0.0% 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
Clare Hospital	22 days	0.0%	76 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.

Angaston District HospitalSA · about 85 km away35 days
Gawler Health ServiceSA · about 86 km away15 days
Northern Yorke Peninsula Health Service (Wallaroo)SA · about 91 km away27 days
Port Pirie Regional Health ServiceSA · about 92 km away34 days
Lyell McEwin HospitalSA · about 102 km away72 days
Modbury HospitalSA · about 112 km away29 days
The Queen Elizabeth HospitalSA · about 117 km away22 days
Women's and Children's HospitalSA · about 120 km away77 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	Clare Hospital (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not published	22	25
2017–18	40	22	25
2018–19	61	22	25
2019–20	37	21	24
2020–21	19	20	25
2021–22	9	23	23
2022–23	17	27	26
2023–24	17	27	26
2024–25	22	27	26

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

All surgery at Clare Hospital · Skin lesion removal across Australia · Skin lesion removal in South Australia