Arthroscopy waiting time at Dubbo Hospital

The median wait for arthroscopy at this public hospital in the Dubbo area of New South Wales was 236 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: 236 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 66 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 22.7%2024–25 · released 28 May 2026

Half the people who had this surgery here waited less than the median, and half waited longer. Of the 150 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 135 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 228 days in 2016–17 to 236 days in 2024–25 — up 4% — while the national median rose from 68 days to 78 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Orange Health Service, about 128 km away, at 171 days. Here, 22.7% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 7.1%.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Arthroscopy" and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Arthroscopy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Dubbo Hospital	236 days	22.7%	66 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	134 days	10.8%	2880 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	78 days	7.1%	8779 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 78 days marks the national median.

Orange Health ServiceNSW · about 128 km away171 days
Bathurst Base HospitalNSW · about 157 km away205 days
Lithgow HospitalNSW · about 199 km away60 days
Tamworth HospitalNSW · about 254 km away194 days
Hawkesbury HospitalNSW · about 256 km away246 days
Nepean HospitalNSW · about 258 km away149 days
Mount Druitt HospitalNSW · about 267 km away299 days
Blacktown HospitalNSW · about 274 km away360 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

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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Arthroscopy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Dubbo Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	228	140	68
2017–18	128	121	72
2018–19	229	126	75
2019–20	97	113	76
2020–21	293	183	89
2021–22	179	156	85
2022–23	175	131	86
2023–24	79	105	78
2024–25	236	134	78

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

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