Surgery Waits

Skin lesion removal waiting times in Northern Territory

Public hospitals in Northern Territory ranked by their median wait for skin lesion removal, published by the source as "Skin lesion - excision of".

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

5 public hospitals in Northern Territory reported skin lesion removal in 2024–25. The state median was 24 days; the national median was 26 days.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Skin lesion - excision of" and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 26 days marks the national median.

Skin lesion - excision of in Northern Territory public hospitals, 2024–25. Hospitals with the same median share a rank and the next rank is skipped. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Rank Hospital Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
1 Alice Springs Hospital 21 days 0.7% 270 surgeries
2 Palmerston Regional Hospital 24 days 0.0% 177 surgeries
2 Royal Darwin Hospital 24 days 0.8% 366 surgeries
4 Katherine Hospital 53 days 0.0% 68 surgeries
5 Gove Hospital 125 days not published 21 surgeries

What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

Waiting times differ across state borders, and a referral can cross one — read what that means. Compare with every other state, or see every surgery reported in Northern Territory.