Urine passage widening waiting time at Port Macquarie Base Hospital
Half of patients at Port Macquarie Base Hospital waited 19 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 Port Macquarie 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
- 19 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 34 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 3 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has fallen from 51 days in 2016–17 to 19 days in 2024–25 — down 63% — while the national median fell from 29 days to 27 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Port Macquarie Base Hospital | 19 days | not published | 34 surgeries |
| New South Wales (all public hospitals) | 30 days | 0.8% | 358 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 27 days | 1.0% | 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.
Concord Repatriation Hospital, NSW · about 313 km away: 37 days
Prince of Wales Hospital, NSW · about 314 km away: 27 days
Nepean Hospital, NSW · about 327 km away: 31 days
Campbelltown Hospital, NSW · about 350 km away: 28 days
Wollongong Hospital, NSW · about 379 km away: 55 days
Dubbo Hospital, NSW · about 412 km away: 108 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
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Port Macquarie Base Hospital (days) | NSW (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 51 | 36 | 29 |
| 2017–18 | 3 | 30 | 28 |
| 2018–19 | 39 | 29 | 32 |
| 2019–20 | 58 | 30 | 32 |
| 2020–21 | 35 | 25 | 29 |
| 2021–22 | 30 | 27 | 27 |
| 2022–23 | 82 | 27 | 31 |
| 2023–24 | 24 | 28 | 26 |
| 2024–25 | 19 | 30 | 27 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
All surgery at Port Macquarie Base Hospital · Urine passage widening across Australia · Urine passage widening in New South Wales · All surgery waits in New South Wales