Dialysis access surgery waiting time at Mackay Base Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Dialysis access surgery at this public hospital, with the nearest alternatives that published a figure.

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

Median wait: 14 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 36 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: not published2024–25 · released 28 May 2026 — Reported data did not meet the criteria to calculate this indicator.

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 25 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Dialysis access surgery, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Mackay Base Hospital	14 days	not published	36 surgeries
Queensland (all public hospitals)	20 days	0.4%	1114 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.

Rockhampton HospitalQLD · about 284 km away20 days
Townsville University HospitalQLD · about 322 km away29 days
Gladstone HospitalQLD · about 370 km away31 days
Bundaberg Base HospitalQLD · about 527 km away20 days
Cairns HospitalQLD · about 590 km away22 days
Toowoomba HospitalQLD · about 768 km away17 days
The Prince Charles HospitalQLD · about 797 km away45 days
Royal Brisbane & Women's HospitalQLD · about 803 km away30 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.

How the wait has changed

Mackay Base Hospital
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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	Mackay Base Hospital (days)	QLD (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	13	16	12
2017–18	14	18	13
2018–19	7	18	14
2019–20	8	20	14
2020–21	11	18	13
2021–22	16	17	13
2022–23	14	20	15
2023–24	13	20	16
2024–25	14	20	15

What is not here

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

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