Skin lesion removal waiting time at Wyong 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 Kanwal area of New South Wales, 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: 92 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 151 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 6.0%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 210 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 26 days in 2016–17 to 92 days in 2024–25 — up 254% — while the national median rose from 25 days to 26 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Gosford Hospital, about 22 km away, at 70 days. Here, 6.0% 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
Wyong Hospital	92 days	6.0%	151 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.

Gosford HospitalNSW · about 22 km away70 days
Belmont HospitalNSW · about 31 km away54 days
John Hunter HospitalNSW · about 43 km away23 days
Calvary Mater NewcastleNSW · about 46 km away31 days
Kurri Kurri HospitalNSW · about 49 km away41 days
Cessnock HospitalNSW · about 50 km away42 days
Northern Beaches HospitalNSW · about 59 km away41 days
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai HospitalNSW · about 60 km away56 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	Wyong Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	26	29	25
2017–18	27	29	25
2018–19	29	30	25
2019–20	28	28	24
2020–21	26	30	25
2021–22	20	28	23
2022–23	25	29	26
2023–24	52	30	26
2024–25	92	30	26

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

All surgery at Wyong Hospital · Skin lesion removal across Australia · Skin lesion removal in New South Wales