Surgery Waits

Dialysis access surgery waiting time at South East Regional Hospital

The median wait for dialysis access surgery at this public hospital in the Tarraganda area of New South Wales was 14 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
14 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
30 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 25 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 13 days in 2016–17 to 14 days in 2024–25 — up 8% — while the national median rose from 12 days to 15 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Shoalhaven Hospital, about 213 km away, at 13 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
South East Regional Hospital14 daysnot published30 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 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 South East Regional Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays081523302016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25South East Regional Hospital 14NSW 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 periodSouth East Regional Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–1713812
2017–1813813
2018–19201014
2019–20201014
2020–2112913
2021–2227913
2022–23191015
2023–24201116
2024–25141015

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

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