minutes (median) - Source frequency: annual · Methodology · Corrections
Australia's hospital emergency wait times was 24 minutes (median) as of January 2025. The long-term trend is getting worse, though the recent 36-month direction is broadly stable. Median time from arrival to treatment in public hospital emergency departments, with drill-down by state. Long wait times indicate pressure on the healthcare system and can lead to worse health outcomes. Data is sourced from AIHW MyHospitals API; AIHW Australian Hospital Statistics and updated annually.
Median time from arrival to treatment in public hospital emergency departments, with drill-down by state.
Long wait times indicate pressure on the healthcare system and can lead to worse health outcomes.
GREEN = favourable trend within acceptable band of baseline. AMBER = flat or mild change. RED = unfavourable trend beyond threshold.
This data is sourced programmatically from official statistical APIs and data feeds (AIHW MyHospitals API; AIHW Australian Hospital Statistics), 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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