Surgery Waits

Skin lesion removal waiting time at Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]

The median wait for skin lesion removal — published by the source as "Skin lesion - excision of" — at this public hospital in the Bellfield area of Victoria was 20 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
20 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
666 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
0.5%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 29 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 2023–24 to 20 days in 2024–25 — up 5% — while the national median stayed at 26 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is St Vincent's On the Park, about 9 km away, at 17 days. Here, 0.5% 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
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]20 days0.5%666 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)20 days1.6%15465 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 Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West], compared with Victoria and Australiadays081523302016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West] 20VIC 20Australia 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 periodHeidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West] (days)VIC (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not reported for this period2225
2017–18not reported for this period2125
2018–19not reported for this period2025
2019–20not reported for this period2024
2020–21not reported for this period2025
2021–22not reported for this period1823
2022–23not reported for this period2026
2023–24191926
2024–25202026

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

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