Lithotripsy waiting time at Port Macquarie Base Hospital

The median wait for lithotripsy at this public hospital in the Port Macquarie area of New South Wales was 118 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: 118 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 15 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 44 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 36 days in 2018–19 to 118 days in 2024–25 — up 228% — while the national median fell from 36 days to 28 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Coffs Harbour Hospital, about 128 km away, at 25 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Lithotripsy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Port Macquarie Base Hospital	118 days	not published	15 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	28 days	0.7%	1134 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	28 days	0.8%	2881 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 28 days marks the national median.

Coffs Harbour HospitalNSW · about 128 km away25 days
John Hunter HospitalNSW · about 198 km away38 days
Hawkesbury HospitalNSW · about 308 km away48 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 313 km away52 days
Prince of Wales HospitalNSW · about 314 km away44 days
Canterbury HospitalNSW · about 321 km away34 days
St George Hospital NSWNSW · about 324 km away26 days
Bankstown Lidcombe HospitalNSW · about 326 km away85 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

Port Macquarie Base Hospital
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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Lithotripsy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Port Macquarie Base Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not reported for this period	not reported for this period	34
2017–18	not reported for this period	not reported for this period	29
2018–19	36	36	36
2019–20	not published	27	28
2020–21	not published	31	34
2021–22	not published	27	33
2022–23	not published	28	30
2023–24	not published	28	28
2024–25	118	28	28

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

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