Nephrectomy waiting time at Royal Darwin 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: 15 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 22 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 3 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
Royal Darwin Hospital	15 days	not published	22 surgeries
Northern Territory (all public hospitals)	not published	not published	22 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	30 days	0.6%	2721 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

No other public hospital within 1,000 km published a figure for this surgery in this period.

How the wait has changed

Royal Darwin 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	Royal Darwin Hospital (days)	NT (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	15	not published	26
2017–18	15	not published	27
2018–19	23	not published	28
2019–20	20	not published	28
2020–21	57	not published	29
2021–22	80	not published	28
2022–23	52	not published	30
2023–24	35	not published	32
2024–25	15	not published	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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