Surgery Waits

Dialysis access surgery waiting times in Northern Territory

Public hospitals in Northern Territory ranked by their median wait for dialysis access surgery.

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

3 public hospitals in Northern Territory reported dialysis access surgery in 2024–25. The state median was 19 days; the national median was 15 days.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Dialysis access surgery" and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 15 days marks the national median.

Dialysis access surgery in Northern Territory public hospitals, 2024–25. Hospitals with the same median share a rank and the next rank is skipped. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Rank Hospital Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
1 Alice Springs Hospital 2 days 1.0% 103 surgeries
2 Royal Darwin Hospital 32 days 1.4% 71 surgeries
3 Palmerston Regional Hospital 53 days not published 20 surgeries

What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

Waiting times differ across state borders, and a referral can cross one — read what that means. Compare with every other state, or see every surgery reported in Northern Territory.