Surgery Waits

Arthrodesis waiting time at Dubbo Hospital

The median wait for arthrodesis at this public hospital in the Dubbo area of New South Wales was 373 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
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.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Arthrodesis, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Dubbo Hospital373 daysnot published14 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)307 days23.6%377 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)158 days19.3%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.

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

Median wait for arthrodesis by financial year at Dubbo Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays01252503755002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Dubbo Hospital 373NSW 307Australia 158
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Arthrodesis, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodDubbo Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–17302256101
2017–18173237105
2018–19not published213111
2019–20not published246107
2020–21not published317182
2021–22333324185
2022–23not published316203
2023–24402293171
2024–25373307158

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

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