Surgery Waits

Urine passage widening waiting time at Dubbo Hospital

Half of patients at Dubbo Hospital waited 108 days or less for urine passage widening in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Urethra - dilatation of". 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
108 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
12 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 14 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 14 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 26 days in 2017–18 to 108 days in 2024–25 — up 315% — while the national median fell from 28 days to 27 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Nepean Hospital, about 258 km away, at 31 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Urethra - dilatation of, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Dubbo Hospital108 daysnot published12 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)30 days0.8%358 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)27 days1.0%599 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 27 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 urethra - dilatation of by financial year at Dubbo Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays03163941252016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Dubbo Hospital 108NSW 30Australia 27
View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Urethra - dilatation of, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodDubbo Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not published3629
2017–18263028
2018–19not published2932
2019–20not published3032
2020–21not published2529
2021–22not published2727
2022–23not published2731
2023–24not published2826
2024–251083027

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

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