Hiatus hernia repair waiting time at Dubbo Hospital
Half of patients at Dubbo Hospital waited 161 days or less for hiatus hernia repair in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Repair of obstructing hiatus hernia". 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
- 161 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 19 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 41 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 32 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has fallen from 232 days in 2020–21 to 161 days in 2024–25 — down 31% — while the national median fell from 91 days to 88 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Orange Health Service, about 128 km away, at 95 days.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dubbo Hospital | 161 days | not published | 19 surgeries |
| New South Wales (all public hospitals) | 104 days | 14.1% | 511 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 88 days | 9.2% | 1170 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 88 days marks the national median.
Orange Health Service, NSW · about 128 km away: 95 days
Nepean Hospital, NSW · about 258 km away: 112 days
Blacktown Hospital, NSW · about 274 km away: 79 days
Gosford Hospital, NSW · about 286 km away: 117 days
Concord Repatriation Hospital, NSW · about 291 km away: 41 days
Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital, NSW · about 292 km away: 81 days
Belmont Hospital, NSW · about 297 km away: 365 days
John Hunter Hospital, NSW · about 298 km away: 267 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 reported for this period | 80 | 66 |
| 2017–18 | not published | 82 | 79 |
| 2018–19 | not published | 79 | 78 |
| 2019–20 | not published | 83 | 81 |
| 2020–21 | 232 | 118 | 91 |
| 2021–22 | 371 | 126 | 98 |
| 2022–23 | 164 | 131 | 114 |
| 2023–24 | 273 | 97 | 89 |
| 2024–25 | 161 | 104 | 88 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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