Ureteric stent - insertion of waiting time at Port Macquarie Base Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Ureteric stent - insertion of 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: 1 day2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 22 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 1 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 Ureteric stent - insertion of, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Port Macquarie Base Hospital	1 day	not published	22 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	28 days	0.5%	1611 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	24 days	0.6%	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.

Coffs Harbour HospitalNSW · about 128 km away21 days
John Hunter HospitalNSW · about 198 km away23 days
Wyong HospitalNSW · about 240 km away21 days
Gosford HospitalNSW · about 262 km away23 days
Northern Beaches HospitalNSW · about 298 km away24 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 313 km away21 days
Prince of Wales HospitalNSW · about 314 km away9 days
Westmead HospitalNSW · about 316 km away32 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 Ureteric stent - insertion of, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Port Macquarie Base Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not published	15	17
2017–18	not published	21	21
2018–19	not published	27	22
2019–20	not published	24	21
2020–21	20	27	22
2021–22	33	22	21
2022–23	not published	27	24
2023–24	1	28	26
2024–25	1	28	24

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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