Skin lesion - excision of waiting time at Lachlan Health Service - Forbes

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: 27 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 38 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 87 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
Lachlan Health Service - Forbes	27 days	not published	38 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	30 days	1.4%	14673 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.

Lachlan Health Service - ParkesNSW · about 31 km away58 days
Cowra Health ServiceNSW · about 79 km away36 days
Orange Health ServiceNSW · about 101 km away22 days
Young HospitalNSW · about 106 km away69 days
Temora HospitalNSW · about 124 km away69 days
Cootamundra HospitalNSW · about 138 km away91 days
Dubbo HospitalNSW · about 141 km away27 days
Bathurst Base HospitalNSW · about 145 km away27 days

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

How the wait has changed

Lachlan Health Service - Forbes
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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	Lachlan Health Service - Forbes (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	26	29	25
2017–18	18	29	25
2018–19	38	30	25
2019–20	23	28	24
2020–21	24	30	25
2021–22	26	28	23
2022–23	37	29	26
2023–24	20	30	26
2024–25	27	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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