Skin lesion removal waiting time at Healesville Hospital and Yarra Valley Health

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 Healesville 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: 25 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 24 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: not published2024–25 · released 28 May 2026 — Reported data did not meet the criteria to calculate this indicator.

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 76 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 116 days in 2021–22 to 25 days in 2024–25 — down 78% — while the national median rose from 23 days to 26 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Maroondah Hospital [East Ringwood], about 30 km away, at 23 days.

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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
Healesville Hospital and Yarra Valley Health	25 days	not published	24 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.

Yarra Ranges HealthVIC · about 20 km away35 days
Maroondah Hospital [East Ringwood]VIC · about 30 km away23 days
Angliss HospitalVIC · about 34 km away79 days
Blackburn Public Surgical CentreVIC · about 39 km away47 days
Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 41 km away23 days
Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]VIC · about 43 km away21 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 44 km away20 days
Monash Medical Centre [Clayton]VIC · about 45 km away67 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	Healesville Hospital and Yarra Valley Health (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not reported for this period	22	25
2017–18	not reported for this period	21	25
2018–19	not reported for this period	20	25
2019–20	not reported for this period	20	24
2020–21	not reported for this period	20	25
2021–22	116	18	23
2022–23	145	20	26
2023–24	40	19	26
2024–25	25	20	26

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

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