Testicle removal waiting time at Nepean Hospital
Half of patients at Nepean Hospital waited 6 days or less for testicle removal in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Orchidectomy". This public hospital is in the Cambridge Park area of New South Wales.
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
- 6 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 11 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 23 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.
The median wait here has fallen from 20 days in 2016–17 to 6 days in 2024–25 — down 70% — while the national median rose from 9 days to 11 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Albury Wodonga Health [Wodonga Campus], about 438 km away, at 4 days.
Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Orchidectomy" 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
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nepean Hospital | 6 days | not published | 11 surgeries |
| New South Wales (all public hospitals) | 14 days | 1.2% | 171 surgeries |
| Victoria (all public hospitals) | 10 days | 0.0% | 206 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 11 days | 0.8% | 718 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 11 days marks the national median.
Wollongong Hospital, NSW · about 76 km away: 18 days
Belmont Hospital, NSW · about 119 km away: 17 days
Albury Wodonga Health [Wodonga Campus], VIC · about 438 km away: 4 days
The Northern Hospital [Epping], VIC · about 672 km away: 14 days
Box Hill Hospital, VIC · about 676 km away: 7 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West], VIC · about 677 km away: 7 days
Casey Hospital, VIC · about 678 km away: 10 days
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, VIC · about 686 km away: 7 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 1000 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.
Some of these hospitals are in another state — a public hospital referral can cross the border, so ask your GP what that would mean for you. See also where crossing a border cuts the wait most.
How the wait has changed
- Nepean Hospital
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Nepean Hospital (days) | NSW (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 20 | 13 | 9 |
| 2017–18 | 10 | 12 | 10 |
| 2018–19 | 8 | 12 | 11 |
| 2019–20 | not published | 10 | 9 |
| 2020–21 | not published | 14 | 11 |
| 2021–22 | 7 | 13 | 11 |
| 2022–23 | not published | 15 | 11 |
| 2023–24 | not published | 13 | 10 |
| 2024–25 | 6 | 14 | 11 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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