Nephrectomy waiting time at Port Macquarie Base Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Nephrectomy 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: 88 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 16 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 57 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 55 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 Nephrectomy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Port Macquarie Base Hospital	88 days	not published	16 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	36 days	0.8%	746 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	30 days	0.6%	2721 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 30 days marks the national median.

Tamworth HospitalNSW · about 190 km away87 days
John Hunter HospitalNSW · about 198 km away69 days
Gosford HospitalNSW · about 262 km away29 days
Lismore Base HospitalNSW · about 297 km away49 days
Royal North Shore HospitalNSW · about 307 km away29 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 313 km away24 days
Royal Prince Alfred HospitalNSW · about 314 km away14 days
Prince of Wales HospitalNSW · about 314 km away23 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 500 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Port Macquarie Base Hospital
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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Nephrectomy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Port Macquarie Base Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	39	29	26
2017–18	67	29	27
2018–19	11	28	28
2019–20	32	28	28
2020–21	30	29	29
2021–22	58	31	28
2022–23	106	32	30
2023–24	105	44	32
2024–25	88	36	30

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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