Dialysis access surgery waiting time at Box Hill Hospital

The median wait for dialysis access surgery at this public hospital in the Box Hill area of Victoria was 57 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: 57 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 32 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 74 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 2019–20 to 57 days in 2024–25 — up 375% — while the national median rose from 14 days to 15 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Austin Hospital [Heidelberg], about 8 km away, at 15 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
Box Hill Hospital	57 days	not published	32 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	20 days	0.4%	944 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.

Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]VIC · about 8 km away15 days
The AlfredVIC · about 13 km away16 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 13 km away21 days
Monash Medical Centre [Clayton]VIC · about 13 km away21 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 14 km away22 days
The Northern Hospital [Epping]VIC · about 20 km away25 days
Western Hospital [Footscray]VIC · about 21 km away20 days
Sunshine HospitalVIC · about 27 km away21 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

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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	Box Hill Hospital (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not reported for this period	22	12
2017–18	not reported for this period	20	13
2018–19	not reported for this period	21	14
2019–20	12	19	14
2020–21	13	18	13
2021–22	16	15	13
2022–23	36	17	15
2023–24	33	20	16
2024–25	57	20	15

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

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