Surgery Waits

Dialysis access surgery waiting time at Dubbo Hospital

The median wait for dialysis access surgery at this public hospital in the Dubbo area of New South Wales was 10 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
10 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
71 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
0.0%2024–25 · released 28 May 2026

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 19 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 1 day in 2016–17 to 10 days in 2024–25 — up 900% — while the national median rose from 12 days to 15 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is The Children's Hospital at Westmead, about 281 km away, at 6 days. Here, 0.0% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 0.3%.

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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
Dubbo Hospital10 days0.0%71 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 Dubbo Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays061319252016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Dubbo Hospital 10NSW 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 periodDubbo Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–171812
2017–188813
2018–1971014
2019–20101014
2020–2110913
2021–229913
2022–23201015
2023–24241116
2024–25101015

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

All surgery at Dubbo Hospital · Dialysis access surgery across Australia · Dialysis access surgery in New South Wales