Nephrectomy waiting time at The Alfred

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: 21 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 33 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 8 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
The Alfred	21 days	not published	33 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	26 days	0.0%	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.

St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 4 km away49 days
Peter MacCallum Cancer CentreVIC · about 6 km away68 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 6 km away28 days
Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville]VIC · about 6 km away60 days
Western Hospital [Footscray]VIC · about 10 km away22 days
Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]VIC · about 12 km away19 days
Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 13 km away26 days
Monash Medical Centre [Clayton]VIC · about 18 km away15 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

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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	The Alfred (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	19	23	26
2017–18	22	23	27
2018–19	24	23	28
2019–20	18	22	28
2020–21	19	23	29
2021–22	21	22	28
2022–23	22	23	30
2023–24	18	23	32
2024–25	21	26	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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