Surgery Waits

Urethra - dilatation of waiting time at Port Macquarie Base Hospital

The median wait for urethra - dilatation of at this public hospital in the Port Macquarie area of New South Wales was 19 days in 2024–25.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released

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

Median wait, long waits and volume for Urethra - dilatation of, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Port Macquarie Base Hospital19 daysnot published34 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 Port Macquarie Base Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays02550751002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Port Macquarie Base Hospital 19NSW 30Australia 27
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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 periodPort Macquarie Base Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–17513629
2017–1833028
2018–19392932
2019–20583032
2020–21352529
2021–22302727
2022–23822731
2023–24242826
2024–25193027

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

All surgery at Port Macquarie Base Hospital · Urethra - dilatation of across Australia · Urethra - dilatation of in New South Wales