Surgery Waits

Dialysis access surgery waiting time at Gold Coast University Hospital

The median wait for dialysis access surgery at this public hospital in the Parkwood area of Queensland was 27 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
27 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
20 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 64 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 16 days in 2016–17 to 27 days in 2024–25 — up 69% — while the national median rose from 12 days to 15 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Tweed Valley Hospital, about 29 km away, at 7 days.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Dialysis access surgery" and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Dialysis access surgery, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Gold Coast University Hospital27 daysnot published20 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)10 days0.3%1797 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 250 km.

Some of these hospitals are in another state — a public hospital referral can cross the border, so ask your GP what that would mean for you.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for dialysis access surgery by financial year at Gold Coast University Hospital, compared with Queensland and Australiadays0132538502016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Gold Coast University Hospital 27QLD 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 periodGold Coast University Hospital (days)QLD (days)Australia (days)
2016–17161612
2017–18241813
2018–19351814
2019–20412014
2020–21291813
2021–22261713
2022–23432015
2023–24282016
2024–25272015

Queensland's quarterly figures for vascular surgery

These are not figures for dialysis access surgery. Queensland reports by surgical specialty, not by procedure. A specialty covers many different operations, so a specialty figure is never a figure for any one of them.

Queensland Health publishes its own figures every three months. They count differently from the national figures above and are never combined with them. This quarter ends after the national reporting period, so it is the more recent of the two.

Covers July to September 2025, published by Queensland Health on 28 October 2025. Reported as Gold Coast University.

Patients treated
151 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Treated within the recommended time
96.7%July to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Still waiting at the end of the quarter
93 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Waiting longer than recommended
0 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025

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

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