Dialysis access surgery waiting time at Albany Hospital

The median wait for dialysis access surgery at this public hospital in the Spencer Park area of Western Australia was 21 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: 21 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 20 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 75 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 50 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 12 days in 2016–17 to 21 days in 2024–25 — up 75% — while the national median rose from 12 days to 15 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Bunbury Hospital, about 276 km away, at 9 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Dialysis access surgery, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Albany Hospital	21 days	not published	20 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)	12 days	0.1%	1390 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	15 days	0.3%	5765 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 15 days marks the national median.

Bunbury HospitalWA · about 276 km away9 days
Busselton Health CampusWA · about 281 km away35 days
Peel Health CampusWA · about 339 km away6 days
Rockingham General HospitalWA · about 360 km away26 days
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial HospitalWA · about 364 km away20 days
Fiona Stanley HospitalWA · about 378 km away1 day
Fremantle Hospital and Health ServiceWA · about 383 km away54 days
St John of God Midland Public HospitalWA · about 388 km away21 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

Albany Hospital
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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Dialysis access surgery, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Albany Hospital (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	12	8	12
2017–18	12	8	13
2018–19	13	10	14
2019–20	9	8	14
2020–21	18	8	13
2021–22	12	8	13
2022–23	11	11	15
2023–24	14	13	16
2024–25	21	12	15

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

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