Skin lesion removal waiting time at Mount Barker District Soldiers' Memorial 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 Mount Barker 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: 17 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 11 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 19 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 41 days in 2018–19 to 17 days in 2024–25 — down 59% — 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.

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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
Mount Barker District Soldiers' Memorial Hospital	17 days	not published	11 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.

Flinders Medical CentreSA · about 28 km away22 days
Women's and Children's HospitalSA · about 31 km away77 days
Royal Adelaide HospitalSA · about 31 km away30 days
Modbury HospitalSA · about 32 km away29 days
Noarlunga HospitalSA · about 34 km away26 days
Murray Bridge Soldiers' Memorial HospitalSA · about 38 km away22 days
The Queen Elizabeth HospitalSA · about 38 km away22 days
Lyell McEwin HospitalSA · about 42 km away72 days

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

How the wait has changed

Mount Barker District Soldiers' Memorial Hospital
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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	Mount Barker District Soldiers' Memorial Hospital (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not published	22	25
2017–18	not published	22	25
2018–19	41	22	25
2019–20	not published	21	24
2020–21	not published	20	25
2021–22	16	23	23
2022–23	29	27	26
2023–24	16	27	26
2024–25	17	27	26

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

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