Dialysis access surgery waiting time at St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]

The median wait for dialysis access surgery at this public hospital in the Fitzroy area of Victoria was 21 days in 2024–25.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026

These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.

Median wait: 21 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 50 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 50 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 45 days in 2016–17 to 21 days in 2024–25 — down 53% — while the national median rose from 12 days to 15 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is The Alfred, about 4 km away, at 16 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
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]	21 days	0.0%	50 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	20 days	0.4%	944 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	15 days	0.3%	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.

Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 2 km away22 days
The AlfredVIC · about 4 km away16 days
Western Hospital [Footscray]VIC · about 8 km away20 days
Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]VIC · about 9 km away15 days
Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 13 km away57 days
Sunshine HospitalVIC · about 15 km away21 days
The Northern Hospital [Epping]VIC · about 17 km away25 days
Monash Medical Centre [Clayton]VIC · about 21 km away21 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

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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 period	St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne] (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	45	22	12
2017–18	41	20	13
2018–19	36	21	14
2019–20	23	19	14
2020–21	27	18	13
2021–22	15	15	13
2022–23	18	17	15
2023–24	18	20	16
2024–25	21	20	15

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

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