Surgery Waits

Haemorrhoid surgery waiting time at Dubbo Hospital

The median wait for haemorrhoid surgery — published by the source as "Haemorrhoidectomy" — at this public hospital in the Dubbo area of New South Wales was 72 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
72 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
27 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 109 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 58 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 32 days in 2011–12 to 72 days in 2024–25 — up 125% — while the national median rose from 57 days to 63 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Singleton Hospital, about 244 km away, at 39 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Haemorrhoidectomy, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Dubbo Hospital72 daysnot published27 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)81 days3.1%1446 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)63 days2.6%4759 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 63 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 haemorrhoidectomy by financial year at Dubbo Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays038751131502011–122014–152017–182020–212023–242024–25Dubbo Hospital 72NSW 81Australia 63
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Haemorrhoidectomy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodDubbo Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2011–12327057
2012–131346759
2013–14846459
2014–15666756
2015–16756354
2016–17306349
2017–18336447
2018–19447049
2019–20657257
2020–21547870
2021–22827177
2022–231049290
2023–24787867
2024–25728163

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

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