Shoulder joint replacement waiting time at Dubbo Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Shoulder joint replacement at this public hospital, with the nearest alternatives that published a figure.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026

Median wait: 388 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 89 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 83 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Shoulder joint replacement, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Dubbo Hospital	388 days	not published	34 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	325 days	30.9%	912 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	174 days	20.4%	2417 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 174 days marks the national median.

Orange Health ServiceNSW · about 128 km away147 days
Bathurst Base HospitalNSW · about 157 km away364 days
Hawkesbury HospitalNSW · about 256 km away335 days
Nepean HospitalNSW · about 258 km away239 days
Mount Druitt HospitalNSW · about 267 km away328 days
Fairfield HospitalNSW · about 279 km away366 days
Maitland HospitalNSW · about 280 km away428 days
Westmead HospitalNSW · about 281 km away321 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

Dubbo Hospital
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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Shoulder joint replacement, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Dubbo Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	334	271	147
2017–18	276	254	152
2018–19	320	270	163
2019–20	95	279	154
2020–21	311	346	246
2021–22	282	335	218
2022–23	328	346	254
2023–24	359	311	192
2024–25	388	325	174

What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

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