Dialysis access surgery waiting time at The Northern Hospital [Epping]

The median wait for dialysis access surgery at this public hospital in the Lalor area of Victoria was 25 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: 25 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 68 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 60 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 65 days in 2016–17 to 25 days in 2024–25 — down 62% — while the national median rose from 12 days to 15 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Austin Hospital [Heidelberg], about 12 km away, at 15 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
The Northern Hospital [Epping]	25 days	0.0%	68 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.

Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]VIC · about 12 km away15 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 17 km away22 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 17 km away21 days
Western Hospital [Footscray]VIC · about 19 km away20 days
Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 20 km away57 days
Sunshine HospitalVIC · about 21 km away21 days
The AlfredVIC · about 22 km away16 days
Monash Medical Centre [Clayton]VIC · about 33 km away21 days

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

How the wait has changed

The Northern Hospital [Epping]
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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 Northern Hospital [Epping] (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	65	22	12
2017–18	20	20	13
2018–19	20	21	14
2019–20	22	19	14
2020–21	17	18	13
2021–22	24	15	13
2022–23	19	17	15
2023–24	21	20	16
2024–25	25	20	15

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

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