Nephrectomy waiting times

Public hospital waiting times for Nephrectomy, nationally and by state.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026

Across Australia, the median wait for Nephrectomy in public hospitals was 30 days in 2024–25, from 2721 surgeries. 0.6% of people waited more than 365 days. 57 public hospitals published a median wait for it.

State by state

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

Victoria26 days
South Australia28 days
Queensland30 days
New South Wales36 days
Western Australia37 days
Northern Territorynot published
Tasmanianot published

Nephrectomy in public hospitals by state and territory, 2024–25. States with the same median share a rank. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Rank	State or territory	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
1	Victoria	26 days	0.0%	746 surgeries
2	South Australia	28 days	2.8%	253 surgeries
3	Queensland	30 days	0.2%	593 surgeries
4	New South Wales	36 days	0.8%	746 surgeries
5	Western Australia	37 days	0.4%	280 surgeries
unranked	Northern Territory	not published	not published	22 surgeries
unranked	Tasmania	not published	not published	81 surgeries

How the wait has changed

Australia
VIC
SA
QLD

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Median wait in days for Nephrectomy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Australia (days)	VIC (days)	SA (days)	QLD (days)
2016–17	26	23	not published	25
2017–18	27	23	34	27
2018–19	28	23	30	28
2019–20	28	22	32	29
2020–21	29	23	44	30
2021–22	28	22	29	28
2022–23	30	23	30	30
2023–24	32	23	29	31
2024–25	30	26	28	30

What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

The source calls this collection “elective surgery”. This site calls it planned surgery, because the surgery is planned in advance rather than optional — the methodology explains the wording.