Dilatation and curettage waiting time at Macksville District Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for dilatation and curettage — published by the source as “Hysteroscopy, dilatation and curettage” — at this public hospital in the Macksville area of New South Wales, 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: 54 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 26 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 158 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 134 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 70 days in 2021–22 to 54 days in 2024–25 — down 23% — while the national median rose from 27 days to 28 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Kempsey District Hospital, about 41 km away, at 28 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Hysteroscopy, dilatation and curettage, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Macksville District Hospital	54 days	not published	26 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	40 days	1.1%	12094 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	28 days	0.9%	36667 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 28 days marks the national median.

Kempsey District HospitalNSW · about 41 km away28 days
Coffs Harbour HospitalNSW · about 47 km away38 days
Port Macquarie Base HospitalNSW · about 82 km away20 days
Wauchope District Memorial HospitalNSW · about 85 km away27 days
Grafton Base HospitalNSW · about 116 km away28 days
Armidale HospitalNSW · about 123 km away20 days
Manning HospitalNSW · about 140 km away35 days
Tamworth HospitalNSW · about 195 km away66 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Macksville District Hospital
NSW
Australia

View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Hysteroscopy, dilatation and curettage, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Macksville District Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not reported for this period	28	23
2017–18	not reported for this period	29	26
2018–19	not reported for this period	39	27
2019–20	not reported for this period	38	28
2020–21	not published	43	29
2021–22	70	37	27
2022–23	68	40	28
2023–24	77	36	28
2024–25	54	40	28

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

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