Kidney removal waiting time at Tamworth Hospital
Half of patients at Tamworth Hospital waited 87 days or less for kidney removal in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Nephrectomy". This public hospital is in the North Tamworth 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
- 87 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 14 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 54 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has risen from 53 days in 2016–17 to 87 days in 2024–25 — up 64% — while the national median rose from 26 days to 30 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is John Hunter Hospital, about 218 km away, at 69 days.
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
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tamworth Hospital | 87 days | not published | 14 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.
Port Macquarie Base Hospital, NSW · about 190 km away: 88 days
John Hunter Hospital, NSW · about 218 km away: 69 days
Dubbo Hospital, NSW · about 254 km away: 67 days
Gosford Hospital, NSW · about 264 km away: 29 days
Nepean Hospital, NSW · about 299 km away: 73 days
Orange Health Service, NSW · about 303 km away: 24 days
Westmead Hospital, NSW · about 304 km away: 77 days
Royal North Shore Hospital, NSW · about 306 km away: 29 days
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
- Tamworth Hospital
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Tamworth Hospital (days) | NSW (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 53 | 29 | 26 |
| 2017–18 | 35 | 29 | 27 |
| 2018–19 | 76 | 28 | 28 |
| 2019–20 | 82 | 28 | 28 |
| 2020–21 | 94 | 29 | 29 |
| 2021–22 | 93 | 31 | 28 |
| 2022–23 | 94 | 32 | 30 |
| 2023–24 | 64 | 44 | 32 |
| 2024–25 | 87 | 36 | 30 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
All surgery at Tamworth Hospital · Kidney removal across Australia · Kidney removal in New South Wales · All surgery waits in New South Wales