Skin lesion - excision of waiting time at Western Hospital [Footscray]

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: 22 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 36 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 46 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
Western Hospital [Footscray]	22 days	not published	36 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.

Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville]VIC · about 6 km away67 days
Peter MacCallum Cancer CentreVIC · about 6 km away15 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 6 km away21 days
Sunshine HospitalVIC · about 7 km away16 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 8 km away20 days
Williamstown HospitalVIC · about 8 km away44 days
The Royal Victorian Eye & Ear HospitalVIC · about 8 km away35 days
St Vincent's On the ParkVIC · about 8 km away17 days

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

How the wait has changed

Western Hospital [Footscray]
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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	Western Hospital [Footscray] (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	15	22	25
2017–18	19	21	25
2018–19	18	20	25
2019–20	38	20	24
2020–21	11	20	25
2021–22	14	18	23
2022–23	121	20	26
2023–24	28	19	26
2024–25	22	20	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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