Surgery Waits

Cystoscopy waiting time at Cowra Health Service

The median wait for cystoscopy at this public hospital in the Cowra area of New South Wales was 28 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
28 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
67 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
0.0%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 131 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 59 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 2022–23 to 28 days in 2024–25 — up 100% — while the national median stayed at 26 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Orange Health Service, about 68 km away, at 2 days. Here, 0.0% 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 Cystoscopy, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Cowra Health Service28 days0.0%67 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)34 days1.7%20425 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)26 days1.3%57307 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 cystoscopy by financial year at Cowra Health Service, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays0102030402011–122014–152017–182020–212023–242024–25Cowra Health Service 28NSW 34Australia 26
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Cystoscopy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodCowra Health Service (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2011–12not published2525
2012–13not published2523
2013–14not published2723
2014–15not published2922
2015–16not reported for this period3023
2016–17not published2724
2017–18not published2824
2018–19not published2724
2019–20not published2723
2020–21not published3026
2021–22not published2824
2022–23143126
2023–24143025
2024–25283426

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

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