Surgery Waits

Dialysis access surgery waiting time at Bundaberg Base Hospital

The median wait for dialysis access surgery at this public hospital in the Bundaberg West area of Queensland was 20 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
20 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
31 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 44 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 15 days in 2016–17 to 20 days in 2024–25 — up 33% — while the national median rose from 12 days to 15 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Queensland Children's Hospital, about 299 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
Bundaberg Base Hospital20 daysnot published31 surgeries
Queensland (all public hospitals)20 days0.4%1114 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)15 days0.3%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.

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

Median wait for dialysis access surgery by financial year at Bundaberg Base Hospital, compared with Queensland and Australiadays061319252016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Bundaberg Base Hospital 20QLD 20Australia 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 periodBundaberg Base Hospital (days)QLD (days)Australia (days)
2016–17151612
2017–18181813
2018–19201814
2019–20192014
2020–21221813
2021–22201713
2022–23252015
2023–24172016
2024–25202015

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

All surgery at Bundaberg Base Hospital · Dialysis access surgery across Australia · Dialysis access surgery in Queensland