Surgery Waits

Skin lesion removal waiting time at Dalby Hospital

The median wait for skin lesion removal — published by the source as "Skin lesion - excision of" — at this public hospital in the Dalby area of Queensland was 29 days in 2024–25.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released

These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.

Median wait
29 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
49 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 109 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 14 days in 2016–17 to 29 days in 2024–25 — up 107% — while the national median rose from 25 days to 26 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Toowoomba Hospital, about 80 km away, at 22 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
Dalby Hospital29 daysnot published49 surgeries
Queensland (all public hospitals)26 days0.7%17290 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)26 days1.3%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.

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

How the wait has changed

Median wait for skin lesion - excision of by financial year at Dalby Hospital, compared with Queensland and Australiadays0193856752016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Dalby Hospital 29QLD 26Australia 26
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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 periodDalby Hospital (days)QLD (days)Australia (days)
2016–17142425
2017–18not published2525
2018–19not published2525
2019–20not published2424
2020–21142525
2021–22142323
2022–23422626
2023–24562626
2024–25292626

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

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