Skin lesion removal waiting time at Murray Bridge 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 Murray Bridge 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: 80 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 risen from 19 days in 2016–17 to 22 days in 2024–25 — up 16% — while the national median rose from 25 days to 26 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Mount Barker District Soldiers' Memorial Hospital, about 38 km away, at 17 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
Murray Bridge Soldiers' Memorial Hospital	22 days	0.0%	80 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.

Mount Barker District Soldiers' Memorial HospitalSA · about 38 km away17 days
Modbury HospitalSA · about 63 km away29 days
Flinders Medical CentreSA · about 66 km away22 days
Women's and Children's HospitalSA · about 67 km away77 days
Royal Adelaide HospitalSA · about 67 km away30 days
Lyell McEwin HospitalSA · about 70 km away72 days
Noarlunga HospitalSA · about 71 km away26 days
Angaston District HospitalSA · about 73 km away35 days

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

How the wait has changed

Murray Bridge 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	Murray Bridge Soldiers' Memorial Hospital (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	19	22	25
2017–18	49	22	25
2018–19	33	22	25
2019–20	43	21	24
2020–21	23	20	25
2021–22	28	23	23
2022–23	27	27	26
2023–24	22	27	26
2024–25	22	27	26

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

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