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Kidney drainage stent insertion at Port Macquarie Base Hospital

Port Macquarie Base Hospital is a public hospital in the Port Macquarie area, New South Wales. This page shows its waiting times for Kidney drainage stent insertion in 2024–25, beside the figures for New South Wales and for Australia.

The source publishes this surgery as "Ureteric stent - insertion of".

Figures for this hospital

Each tile shows one figure for Kidney drainage stent insertion at Port Macquarie Base Hospital.

A rank compares this hospital with every public hospital in Australia that published the same figure for the same period. The page shows a rank only on a current published figure. It never ranks a withheld or unreported figure. It also never ranks a figure from an earlier period.

Median wait, Port Macquarie Base Hospital
1 day2024–25, released 19 August 2026

Rank1st of 39 nationally

Change on the year before0 days

Waiting more than 365 days, Port Macquarie Base Hospital
not published: the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare did not publish a figure2024–25, released 19 August 2026
Patients treated, Port Macquarie Base Hospital
22 surgeries2024–25, released 19 August 2026

Compared with the state and Australia

The state and national rows cover every public hospital that reported Kidney drainage stent insertion. They are never ranked.

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Kidney drainage stent insertion: Port Macquarie Base Hospital, New South Wales and Australia2024–25, released 19 August 2026
Who the figures coverMedian waitWaiting more than 365 daysPatients treated
Port Macquarie Base Hospital1 daynot published: the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare did not publish a figure22 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)28 days0.5%1,611 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)24 days0.6%2,982 surgeries

Shorter waits nearby

Port Macquarie Base Hospital has 8 public hospitals on its list of nearby public hospitals. No hospital on that list published a shorter median wait for Kidney drainage stent insertion in 2024–25.

How this hospital's wait has changed

The median wait for Kidney drainage stent insertion at Port Macquarie Base Hospital has fallen from 20 days in 2020–21 to 1 day in 2024–25. The earlier figure is from 2020–21, released 19 August 2026, and the latest is from 2024–25, released 19 August 2026.

Each chart shows the median wait for each year the source published it. A year with no published figure is a gap in the line, and the table under the chart gives the reason.

Kidney drainage stent insertion: median wait by financial year, Port Macquarie Base Hospital, New South Wales and Australia2016–17 to 2024–25, released 19 August 2026
0102030402016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25
  • Port Macquarie Base Hospital
  • New South Wales
  • Australia
  • No figure published for this year. The table gives the reason.
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Kidney drainage stent insertion: median wait by financial year, Port Macquarie Base Hospital, New South Wales and Australia2016–17 to 2024–25, released 19 August 2026
Financial yearPort Macquarie Base HospitalNew South WalesAustralia
2016–17not published: the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare did not publish a figure15 days17 days
2017–18not published: the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare did not publish a figure21 days21 days
2018–19not published: the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare did not publish a figure27 days22 days
2019–20not published: the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare did not publish a figure24 days21 days
2020–2120 days27 days22 days
2021–2233 days22 days21 days
2022–23not published: the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare did not publish a figure27 days24 days
2023–241 day28 days26 days
2024–251 day28 days24 days

All planned surgery at Port Macquarie Base Hospital

Kidney drainage stent insertion at every public hospital in Australia

Kidney drainage stent insertion in New South Wales

What this page leaves out

Private hospitals are excluded. This page covers public hospitals only, so it shows no private hospital.

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Where this data comes from

  • Dataset on publicdata.au
    Elective surgery waiting times by hospital and urgency category, Australia
    Publisher
    Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    Version
    3 October 2026
    Data released
    19 August 2026
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    How to cite this data
    Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australian Government, MyHospitals Data API, elective surgery waiting times data extract, sourced 3 October 2026, https://myhospitalsapi.aihw.gov.au/, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/au-elective-surgery-waiting-times/v/2026-10-03/
  • Dataset on publicdata.au
    Elective surgery waiting times by hospital and intended procedure, Australia
    Publisher
    Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    Version
    20 October 2026
    Data released
    19 August 2026
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    How to cite this data
    Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australian Government, MyHospitals Data API, elective surgery waiting times data extract, sourced 19 October 2026, https://myhospitalsapi.aihw.gov.au/, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/au-elective-surgery-waiting-times-by-procedure/v/2026-10-20/
  • Dataset on publicdata.au
    Elective surgery waiting times by hospital and surgical specialty, Australia
    Publisher
    Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    Version
    20 October 2026
    Data released
    19 August 2026
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    How to cite this data
    Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australian Government, MyHospitals Data API, elective surgery waiting times data extract, sourced 19 October 2026, https://myhospitalsapi.aihw.gov.au/, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/au-elective-surgery-waiting-times-by-specialty/v/2026-10-20/
  • Dataset on publicdata.au
    Hospitals, Local Hospital Networks and Primary Health Networks in MyHospitals, Australia
    Publisher
    Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    Version
    3 October 2026
    Data released
    19 August 2026
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    How to cite this data
    Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australian Government, MyHospitals Data API, mapping details extract, sourced 3 October 2026, https://myhospitalsapi.aihw.gov.au/, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/au-hospitals-myhospitals/v/2026-10-03/
  • Dataset on publicdata.au
    Reported measures and their codes in MyHospitals, Australia
    Publisher
    Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    Version
    27 October 2026
    Data released
    The publisher gives no release date for this dataset.
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    How to cite this data
    Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australian Government, MyHospitals Data API, reported measures, sourced 26 October 2026, https://myhospitalsapi.aihw.gov.au/, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/au-myhospitals-reported-measures/v/2026-10-27/
  • Dataset on publicdata.au
    Reporting unit mappings to health networks and states in MyHospitals, Australia
    Publisher
    Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    Version
    27 October 2026
    Data released
    The publisher gives no release date for this dataset.
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    How to cite this data
    Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australian Government, MyHospitals Data API, reporting units, sourced 26 October 2026, https://myhospitalsapi.aihw.gov.au/, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/au-myhospitals-reporting-unit-mappings/v/2026-10-27/
  • Dataset on publicdata.au
    Reporting unit codes and alternative names in MyHospitals, Australia
    Publisher
    Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    Version
    27 October 2026
    Data released
    The publisher gives no release date for this dataset.
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    How to cite this data
    Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australian Government, MyHospitals Data API, reporting units, sourced 26 October 2026, https://myhospitalsapi.aihw.gov.au/, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/au-myhospitals-reporting-units/v/2026-10-27/