Surgery Waits

Nephrectomy waiting time at Orange Health Service

The median wait for nephrectomy at this public hospital in the Spring Creek area of New South Wales was 24 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
24 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 57 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 12 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 23 days in 2017–18 to 24 days in 2024–25 — up 4% — while the national median rose from 27 days to 30 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.

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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
Orange Health Service24 daysnot published11 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 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for nephrectomy by financial year at Orange Health Service, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays0132538502016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Orange Health Service 24NSW 36Australia 30
  • Orange Health Service
  • NSW
  • Australia
View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Nephrectomy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodOrange Health Service (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not published2926
2017–18232927
2018–19242828
2019–20202828
2020–21232929
2021–22153128
2022–23253230
2023–24not published4432
2024–25243630

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

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