Dialysis access surgery waiting time at The Bendigo Hospital

The median wait for dialysis access surgery at this public hospital in the Bendigo area of Victoria was 26 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: 26 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 21 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 62 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 15 days in 2017–18 to 26 days in 2024–25 — up 73% — while the national median rose from 13 days to 15 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital], about 98 km away, at 9 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
The Bendigo Hospital	26 days	not published	21 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.

Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital]VIC · about 98 km away9 days
Goulburn Valley Health [Shepparton]VIC · about 109 km away9 days
The Northern Hospital [Epping]VIC · about 120 km away25 days
Sunshine HospitalVIC · about 122 km away21 days
Western Hospital [Footscray]VIC · about 128 km away20 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 131 km away22 days
Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]VIC · about 131 km away15 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 133 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	The Bendigo Hospital (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not published	22	12
2017–18	15	20	13
2018–19	18	21	14
2019–20	38	19	14
2020–21	20	18	13
2021–22	22	15	13
2022–23	14	17	15
2023–24	18	20	16
2024–25	26	20	15

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

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