Surgery Waits

Dialysis access surgery waiting time at Alice Springs Hospital

The median wait for dialysis access surgery at this public hospital in the Alice Springs area of Northern Territory was 2 days in 2024–25.

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

These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.

Median wait
2 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
103 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
1.0%2024–25 · released 28 May 2026

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 4 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 26 days in 2016–17 to 2 days in 2024–25 — down 92% — while the national median rose from 12 days to 15 days. Here, 1.0% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 0.3%.

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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
Alice Springs Hospital2 days1.0%103 surgeries
Northern Territory (all public hospitals)19 days1.0%194 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)15 days0.3%5765 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

No other public hospital within 1,000 km published a figure for this surgery in this period.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for dialysis access surgery by financial year at Alice Springs Hospital, compared with Northern Territory and Australiadays081523302016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Alice Springs Hospital 2NT 19Australia 15
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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 periodAlice Springs Hospital (days)NT (days)Australia (days)
2016–1726not published12
2017–1881313
2018–1941214
2019–2031114
2020–2121813
2021–22242213
2022–23212415
2023–2481816
2024–2521915

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

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