Nephrectomy waiting time at Nepean Hospital

The median wait for nephrectomy at this public hospital in the Cambridge Park area of New South Wales was 73 days in 2024–25.

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

These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.

Median wait: 73 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 70 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 1.4%2024–25 · released 28 May 2026

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 52 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 40 days in 2016–17 to 73 days in 2024–25 — up 83% — while the national median rose from 26 days to 30 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Liverpool Hospital, about 27 km away, at 36 days. Here, 1.4% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 0.6%.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Nephrectomy" and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Nephrectomy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Nepean Hospital	73 days	1.4%	70 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.

Westmead HospitalNSW · about 26 km away77 days
Liverpool HospitalNSW · about 27 km away36 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 36 km away24 days
Campbelltown HospitalNSW · about 36 km away41 days
Royal North Shore HospitalNSW · about 45 km away29 days
St George Hospital NSWNSW · about 45 km away28 days
Royal Prince Alfred HospitalNSW · about 46 km away14 days
Prince of Wales HospitalNSW · about 52 km away23 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	Nepean Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	40	29	26
2017–18	35	29	27
2018–19	47	28	28
2019–20	44	28	28
2020–21	64	29	29
2021–22	38	31	28
2022–23	40	32	30
2023–24	115	44	32
2024–25	73	36	30

Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.

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