The Impact of a Tropical Cyclone on the Evacuation of a 12‐Chair Dialysis Service in Southeast Queensland

In March 2025, Tropical Cyclone Alfred crossed the coast of Queensland near Brisbane as a Category 1 cyclone. We describe the impacts of this severe weather event on a metropolitan dialysis service comprising of a 14‐chair haemodialysis unit at the Redland Hospital and the 12‐chair haemodialysis unit at the Redlands Satellite Health Centre in Redland City, east of Brisbane. The cyclone was the fourth significant weather‐associated disaster experienced in Queensland in the last 15 years, following on from the Brisbane River floods in 2011 and 2022 and Cyclone Yasi in 2011 in North Queensland, which resulted in the displacement of dialysis patients from North Queensland to Brisbane. As a consequence of being able to rapidly implement a robust disaster plan, and despite the unique challenges of a newly built and established facility and a patient population living on nearby islands in Moreton Bay with significant disruption to transportation, we were able to manage the disaster without any patient suffering harm.