Skin lesion removal waiting time at Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin]

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 Bentleigh East 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: 21 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 27 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 38 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 21 days in 2024–25 — down 16% — while the national median rose from 25 days to 26 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is The Alfred, about 11 km away, at 15 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
Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin]	21 days	not published	27 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.

Sandringham HospitalVIC · about 6 km away29 days
Monash Medical Centre [Clayton]VIC · about 8 km away67 days
The AlfredVIC · about 11 km away15 days
Blackburn Public Surgical CentreVIC · about 13 km away47 days
Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 13 km away23 days
St Vincent's On the ParkVIC · about 14 km away17 days
The Royal Victorian Eye & Ear HospitalVIC · about 15 km away35 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 15 km away20 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	Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin] (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	25	22	25
2017–18	50	21	25
2018–19	18	20	25
2019–20	9	20	24
2020–21	12	20	25
2021–22	17	18	23
2022–23	27	20	26
2023–24	72	19	26
2024–25	21	20	26

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

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