minutes (median) - Source frequency: annual · Methodology · Corrections
Australia's hospital emergency wait times was 18 minutes (median) as of January 2025. Median time from arrival to the start of clinical care in public hospital emergency departments (national). 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 Australian Hospital Statistics, Emergency Department Care (national 50th percentile, minutes). and updated annually.
Median time from arrival to the start of clinical care in public hospital emergency departments (national). 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
Source: AIHW Australian Hospital Statistics, Emergency Department Care (national 50th percentile, minutes).
This data is sourced programmatically from official statistical APIs and data feeds (AIHW Australian Hospital Statistics, Emergency Department Care (national 50th percentile, 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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