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Kidney removal waiting times in Victoria

The median wait for kidney removal in Victoria public hospitals was 26 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The national median was 30 days. The source publishes this surgery as "Nephrectomy".

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

18 public hospitals in Victoria reported kidney removal in 2024–25. They are ranked by their published median wait alone, shortest first.

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.

3 hospitals have no published median wait for this surgery in this period. They are listed last, marked "not published", and are never ranked.

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

Nephrectomy in Victoria public hospitals, 2024–25. Hospitals with the same median share a rank and the next rank is skipped. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Rank Hospital Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
1 Monash Medical Centre [Clayton] 15 days not published 30 surgeries
2 Austin Hospital [Heidelberg] 19 days 0.0% 107 surgeries
2 Casey Hospital 19 days 0.0% 71 surgeries
4 The Alfred 21 days not published 33 surgeries
5 Western Hospital [Footscray] 22 days 0.0% 60 surgeries
6 Frankston Hospital 23 days not published 27 surgeries
7 Box Hill Hospital 26 days not published 36 surgeries
8 Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus] 28 days 0.0% 99 surgeries
8 The Bendigo Hospital 28 days not published 21 surgeries
10 The Northern Hospital [Epping] 30 days not published 35 surgeries
11 St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne] 49 days 0.0% 62 surgeries
12 Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital] 58 days not published 28 surgeries
13 Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville] 60 days not published 11 surgeries
14 University Hospital Geelong 66 days not published 49 surgeries
15 Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre 68 days 0.0% 63 surgeries
unranked Albury Wodonga Health [Wodonga Campus] not published not published 8 surgeries
unranked Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West] not published not published not published
unranked Northeast Health Wangaratta not published not published 5 surgeries

Ranked by area in Victoria: near Clayton.

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The median wait for kidney removal in Victoria public hospitals was 26 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

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Surgery Waits, "Kidney removal waiting times in Victoria", 2024–25 data released 28 May 2026, https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/nephrectomy/vic/, accessed 28 May 2026.

Attribution: Surgery Waits (https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/nephrectomy/vic/), from Australian Institute of Health and Welfare MyHospitals data, CC BY 3.0 AU. Reference period 2024–25, released 28 May 2026.

What is not here

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

Waiting times differ across state borders, and a referral can cross one — read what that means. Compare with every other state, or see every surgery reported in Victoria.