Surgery Waits

Nephrectomy waiting time at Port Macquarie Base Hospital

The median wait for nephrectomy at this public hospital in the Port Macquarie area of New South Wales was 88 days in 2024–25.

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

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

Median wait
88 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
16 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 55 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 39 days in 2016–17 to 88 days in 2024–25 — up 126% — while the national median rose from 26 days to 30 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Tamworth Hospital, about 190 km away, at 87 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Nephrectomy, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Port Macquarie Base Hospital88 daysnot published16 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)36 days0.8%746 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)30 days0.6%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.

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 500 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for nephrectomy by financial year at Port Macquarie Base Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays03163941252016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Port Macquarie Base Hospital 88NSW 36Australia 30
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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 periodPort Macquarie Base Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–17392926
2017–18672927
2018–19112828
2019–20322828
2020–21302929
2021–22583128
2022–231063230
2023–241054432
2024–25883630

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

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