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
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alice Springs Hospital | 2 days | 1.0% | 103 surgeries |
| Northern Territory (all public hospitals) | 19 days | 1.0% | 194 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 15 days | 0.3% | 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
- Alice Springs Hospital
- NT
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Alice Springs Hospital (days) | NT (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 26 | not published | 12 |
| 2017–18 | 8 | 13 | 13 |
| 2018–19 | 4 | 12 | 14 |
| 2019–20 | 3 | 11 | 14 |
| 2020–21 | 2 | 18 | 13 |
| 2021–22 | 24 | 22 | 13 |
| 2022–23 | 21 | 24 | 15 |
| 2023–24 | 8 | 18 | 16 |
| 2024–25 | 2 | 19 | 15 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
All surgery at Alice Springs Hospital · Dialysis access surgery across Australia · Dialysis access surgery in Northern Territory