Surgery Waits

Ureteric stent - insertion of waiting time at Dubbo Hospital

The median wait for ureteric stent - insertion of at this public hospital in the Dubbo area of New South Wales was 33 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
33 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
30 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 39 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 28 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 1 day in 2016–17 to 33 days in 2024–25 — up 3200% — while the national median rose from 17 days to 24 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Nepean Hospital, about 258 km away, at 17 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Ureteric stent - insertion of, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Dubbo Hospital33 daysnot published30 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)28 days0.5%1611 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)24 days0.6%2982 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 24 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 ureteric stent - insertion of by financial year at Dubbo Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays0102030402016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Dubbo Hospital 33NSW 28Australia 24
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Ureteric stent - insertion of, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodDubbo Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–1711517
2017–18not published2121
2018–19not published2722
2019–20not published2421
2020–21not published2722
2021–2282221
2022–2362724
2023–24192826
2024–25332824

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

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