Surgery Waits

Dialysis access surgery waiting times in Western Australia

The median wait for dialysis access surgery in Western Australia public hospitals was 12 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The national median was 15 days.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026.

23 public hospitals in Western Australia reported dialysis access surgery in 2024–25. They are ranked by their published median wait alone, shortest first.

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.

6 hospitals have no published median wait for this surgery in this period. They are listed last, marked "not published", and are never ranked.

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

Dialysis access surgery in Western Australia 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 Broome Hospital 1 day not published 26 surgeries
1 Fiona Stanley Hospital 1 day 0.0% 169 surgeries
3 Geraldton Hospital 6 days not published 30 surgeries
3 Peel Health Campus 6 days not published 36 surgeries
5 Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 8 days 0.0% 319 surgeries
6 Bunbury Hospital 9 days 0.0% 83 surgeries
7 Joondalup Health Campus (Public) 10 days 0.0% 124 surgeries
8 Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus 15 days 1.0% 105 surgeries
9 Perth Children's Hospital 17 days 0.0% 171 surgeries
10 Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 20 days not published 47 surgeries
11 Albany Hospital 21 days not published 20 surgeries
11 St John of God Midland Public Hospital 21 days 0.0% 65 surgeries
13 Kalgoorlie Health Campus 25 days not published 26 surgeries
14 Rockingham General Hospital 26 days not published 38 surgeries
15 Busselton Health Campus 35 days not published 14 surgeries
16 Fremantle Hospital and Health Service 54 days 0.0% 64 surgeries
17 Osborne Park Hospital 71 days not published 15 surgeries
unranked Bentley Health Service not published not published not published
unranked Bridgetown Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Hedland Health Campus not published not published 9 surgeries
unranked Karratha Health Campus not published not published 6 surgeries
unranked Kununurra Hospital not published not published 8 surgeries
unranked Warren Hospital not published not published not published

Ranked by area in Western Australia: near Murdoch · near Nedlands · near the Perth CBD.

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The median wait for dialysis access surgery in Western Australia public hospitals was 12 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

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Surgery Waits, "Dialysis access surgery waiting times in WA", 2024–25 data released 28 May 2026, https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/dialysis-access-surgery/wa/, accessed 28 May 2026.

Attribution: Surgery Waits (https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/dialysis-access-surgery/wa/), from Australian Institute of Health and Welfare MyHospitals data, CC BY 3.0 AU. Reference period 2024–25, released 28 May 2026.

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 Western Australia.