Dialysis access surgery waiting time at Sydney Children's Hospital
Half of patients at Sydney Children's Hospital waited 5 days or less for dialysis access surgery in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). This public hospital is in the Randwick area of New South Wales.
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
- 5 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 170 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 7 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has risen from 4 days in 2016–17 to 5 days in 2024–25 — up 25% — while the national median rose from 12 days to 15 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period. 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
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sydney Children's Hospital | 5 days | 0.0% | 170 surgeries |
| New South Wales (all public hospitals) | 10 days | 0.3% | 1797 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 Prince Alfred Hospital, NSW · about 6 km away: 5 days
Concord Repatriation Hospital, NSW · about 16 km away: 14 days
Northern Beaches Hospital, NSW · about 19 km away: 6 days
Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital, NSW · about 20 km away: 20 days
The Children's Hospital at Westmead, NSW · about 26 km away: 6 days
Westmead Hospital, NSW · about 26 km away: 15 days
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital, NSW · about 27 km away: 10 days
Liverpool Hospital, NSW · about 28 km away: 23 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Sydney Children's Hospital
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Sydney Children's Hospital (days) | NSW (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 4 | 8 | 12 |
| 2017–18 | 5 | 8 | 13 |
| 2018–19 | 5 | 10 | 14 |
| 2019–20 | 5 | 10 | 14 |
| 2020–21 | 5 | 9 | 13 |
| 2021–22 | 3 | 9 | 13 |
| 2022–23 | 3 | 10 | 15 |
| 2023–24 | 2 | 11 | 16 |
| 2024–25 | 5 | 10 | 15 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
All surgery at Sydney Children's Hospital · Dialysis access surgery across Australia · Dialysis access surgery in New South Wales · All surgery waits in New South Wales