Dialysis access surgery waiting time at Royal Adelaide Hospital

The median wait for dialysis access surgery at this public hospital in the Adelaide area of South Australia was 33 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: 33 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 181 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 69 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 23 days in 2016–17 to 33 days in 2024–25 — up 43% — while the national median rose from 12 days to 15 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Flinders Medical Centre, about 11 km away, at 15 days. Here, 0.0% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 0.3%.

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.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Dialysis access surgery, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Royal Adelaide Hospital	33 days	0.0%	181 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)	22 days	0.3%	315 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.

Flinders Medical CentreSA · about 11 km away15 days
The Bendigo HospitalVIC · about 552 km away26 days
Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital]VIC · about 555 km away9 days
Goulburn Valley Health [Shepparton]VIC · about 636 km away9 days
Sunshine HospitalVIC · about 641 km away21 days
Western Hospital [Footscray]VIC · about 648 km away20 days
The Northern Hospital [Epping]VIC · about 651 km away25 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 654 km away22 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 1000 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

Some of these hospitals are in another state — a public hospital referral can cross the border, so ask your GP what that would mean for you.

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	Royal Adelaide Hospital (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	23	22	12
2017–18	19	19	13
2018–19	19	19	14
2019–20	20	19	14
2020–21	21	18	13
2021–22	32	25	13
2022–23	33	27	15
2023–24	29	25	16
2024–25	33	22	15

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

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