minutes (median) - Source frequency: annual · Methodology · Corrections
Australia's hospital emergency wait times was 228 minutes (median) as of January 2025. Median time from arrival to departure from a public hospital emergency department (national, all patients). AIHW's state-level medians are not available to the dashboard. Long wait times indicate pressure on the healthcare system and can lead to worse health outcomes. Data is sourced from AIHW MyHospitals, Emergency Department Time in ED (MYH0036) - national median, all patients (minutes). and updated annually.
Median time from arrival to departure from a public hospital emergency department (national, all patients). AIHW's state-level medians are not available to the dashboard.
Long wait times indicate pressure on the healthcare system and can lead to worse health outcomes.
Lower is better
This data is sourced programmatically from official statistical APIs and data feeds (AIHW MyHospitals, Emergency Department Time in ED (MYH0036) - national median, all patients (minutes).), updated annually. The source link above points to the human-readable publication page, which presents the same underlying data in a different format (e.g. Excel workbook, PDF release). Our pipeline fetches the machine-readable version automatically and converts it to the standardised format shown here.
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