Joint fusion surgery waiting time at Dubbo Hospital
Half of patients at Dubbo Hospital waited 373 days or less for joint fusion surgery in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Arthrodesis". This public hospital is in the Dubbo area of New South Wales.
Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026.
These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.
- Median wait
- 373 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 14 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 51 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 49 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has risen from 302 days in 2016–17 to 373 days in 2024–25 — up 24% — while the national median rose from 101 days to 158 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Hawkesbury Hospital, about 256 km away, at 180 days.
Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Arthrodesis" and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.
How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dubbo Hospital | 373 days | not published | 14 surgeries |
| New South Wales (all public hospitals) | 307 days | 23.6% | 377 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 158 days | 19.3% | 1563 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 158 days marks the national median.
Hawkesbury Hospital, NSW · about 256 km away: 180 days
Mount Druitt Hospital, NSW · about 267 km away: 352 days
Ryde Hospital, NSW · about 288 km away: 299 days
Campbelltown Hospital, NSW · about 288 km away: 348 days
Concord Repatriation Hospital, NSW · about 291 km away: 199 days
Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital, NSW · about 292 km away: 352 days
John Hunter Hospital, NSW · about 298 km away: 400 days
Prince of Wales Hospital, NSW · about 307 km away: 106 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 500 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Dubbo Hospital
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Dubbo Hospital (days) | NSW (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 302 | 256 | 101 |
| 2017–18 | 173 | 237 | 105 |
| 2018–19 | not published | 213 | 111 |
| 2019–20 | not published | 246 | 107 |
| 2020–21 | not published | 317 | 182 |
| 2021–22 | 333 | 324 | 185 |
| 2022–23 | not published | 316 | 203 |
| 2023–24 | 402 | 293 | 171 |
| 2024–25 | 373 | 307 | 158 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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