Surgery Waits

Dialysis access surgery waiting time at Northern Beaches Hospital

The median wait for dialysis access surgery at this public hospital in the Frenchs Forest area of New South Wales was 6 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
6 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
34 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 9 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 3 days in 2019–20 to 6 days in 2024–25 — up 100% — while the national median rose from 14 days to 15 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, about 16 km away, at 5 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
Northern Beaches Hospital6 daysnot published34 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)10 days0.3%1797 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 Northern Beaches Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays051015202016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Northern Beaches Hospital 6NSW 10Australia 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 periodNorthern Beaches Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not reported for this period812
2017–18not reported for this period813
2018–19not published1014
2019–2031014
2020–2112913
2021–226913
2022–23191015
2023–24not published1116
2024–2561015

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

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