Surgery Waits

Dialysis access surgery waiting time at Gladstone Hospital

The median wait for dialysis access surgery at this public hospital in the West Gladstone area of Queensland was 31 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
31 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
22 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 67 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 8 days in 2016–17 to 31 days in 2024–25 — up 288% — while the national median rose from 12 days to 15 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Rockhampton Hospital, about 93 km away, at 20 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
Gladstone Hospital31 daysnot published22 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 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 Gladstone Hospital, compared with Queensland and Australiadays0102030402016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Gladstone Hospital 31QLD 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 periodGladstone Hospital (days)QLD (days)Australia (days)
2016–1781612
2017–1881813
2018–19131814
2019–20not published2014
2020–21231813
2021–22201713
2022–23112015
2023–24not published2016
2024–25312015

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

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