Surgery Waits

Skin lesion removal waiting time at Longreach Hospital

The median wait for skin lesion removal — published by the source as "Skin lesion - excision of" — at this public hospital in the Ilfracombe area of Queensland was 27 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
27 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
20 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 87 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 23 days in 2019–20 to 27 days in 2024–25 — up 17% — while the national median rose from 24 days to 26 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Emerald Hospital, about 397 km away, at 20 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
Longreach Hospital27 daysnot published20 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 1000 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for skin lesion - excision of by financial year at Longreach Hospital, compared with Queensland and Australiadays081523302016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Longreach Hospital 27QLD 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 periodLongreach Hospital (days)QLD (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not published2425
2017–18not published2525
2018–19not published2525
2019–20232424
2020–21212525
2021–22212323
2022–23192626
2023–24142626
2024–25272626

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

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