Surgery Waits

Dialysis access surgery waiting time at Busselton Health Campus

The median wait for dialysis access surgery at this public hospital in the West Busselton area of Western Australia was 35 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
35 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
14 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 70 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 7 days in 2020–21 to 35 days in 2024–25 — up 400% — while the national median rose from 13 days to 15 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Bunbury Hospital, about 44 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
Busselton Health Campus35 daysnot published14 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)12 days0.1%1390 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 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for dialysis access surgery by financial year at Busselton Health Campus, compared with Western Australia and Australiadays0102030402016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Busselton Health Campus 35WA 12Australia 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 periodBusselton Health Campus (days)WA (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not published812
2017–18not published813
2018–19not published1014
2019–20not published814
2020–217813
2021–22not published813
2022–23131115
2023–24221316
2024–25351215

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

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