Bone realignment surgery waiting time at Dubbo Hospital
Half of patients at Dubbo Hospital waited 305 days or less for bone realignment surgery in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Osteotomy". 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
- 305 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 11 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 49 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 43 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has risen from 275 days in 2017–18 to 305 days in 2024–25 — up 11% — while the national median rose from 86 days to 135 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Nepean Hospital, about 258 km away, at 54 days.
Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Osteotomy" 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 | 305 days | not published | 11 surgeries |
| New South Wales (all public hospitals) | 180 days | 16.4% | 451 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 135 days | 19.2% | 1866 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 135 days marks the national median.
Nepean Hospital, NSW · about 258 km away: 54 days
Westmead Hospital, NSW · about 281 km away: 304 days
The Children's Hospital at Westmead, NSW · about 281 km away: 107 days
Campbelltown Hospital, NSW · about 288 km away: 354 days
Concord Repatriation Hospital, NSW · about 291 km away: 198 days
Belmont Hospital, NSW · about 297 km away: 252 days
Royal North Shore Hospital, NSW · about 297 km away: 253 days
John Hunter Hospital, NSW · about 298 km away: 372 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 | not published | 156 | 76 |
| 2017–18 | 275 | 153 | 86 |
| 2018–19 | not published | 147 | 90 |
| 2019–20 | not published | 157 | 103 |
| 2020–21 | 319 | 233 | 136 |
| 2021–22 | not published | 166 | 122 |
| 2022–23 | not published | 146 | 157 |
| 2023–24 | not published | 182 | 152 |
| 2024–25 | 305 | 180 | 135 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
All surgery at Dubbo Hospital · Bone realignment surgery across Australia · Bone realignment surgery in New South Wales · All surgery waits in New South Wales