Hip replacement waiting time at Dubbo Hospital

The median wait for hip replacement — published by the source as "Total hip replacement" — at this public hospital in the Dubbo area of New South Wales was 265 days in 2024–25.

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: 265 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 119 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 24.4%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 123 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 96 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 311 days in 2011–12 to 265 days in 2024–25 — down 15% — while the national median rose from 116 days to 130 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period. Here, 24.4% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 13.0%.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Total hip replacement" 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

Median wait, long waits and volume for Total hip replacement, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Dubbo Hospital	265 days	24.4%	119 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	265 days	20.9%	4162 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	130 days	13.0%	12180 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 130 days marks the national median.

Orange Health ServiceNSW · about 128 km away276 days
Bathurst Base HospitalNSW · about 157 km away322 days
Tamworth HospitalNSW · about 254 km away279 days
Hawkesbury HospitalNSW · about 256 km away276 days
Nepean HospitalNSW · about 258 km away330 days
Mount Druitt HospitalNSW · about 267 km away334 days
Blacktown HospitalNSW · about 274 km away349 days
Fairfield HospitalNSW · about 279 km away348 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

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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Total hip replacement, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Dubbo Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	311	193	116
2012–13	311	196	116
2013–14	345	191	106
2014–15	341	206	109
2015–16	341	212	114
2016–17	315	217	110
2017–18	221	212	119
2018–19	198	220	119
2019–20	319	202	120
2020–21	364	271	179
2021–22	416	231	153
2022–23	240	244	175
2023–24	313	225	135
2024–25	265	265	130

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

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