Surgery Waits

Nephrectomy waiting time at Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus

The median wait for nephrectomy at this public hospital in the Perth area of Western Australia was 39 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
39 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
80 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
0.0%2024–25 · released 28 May 2026

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 34 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 18 days in 2016–17 to 39 days in 2024–25 — up 117% — while the national median rose from 26 days to 30 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, about 5 km away, at 26 days. Here, 0.0% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 0.6%.

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

Median wait, long waits and volume for Nephrectomy, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus39 days0.0%80 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)37 days0.4%280 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 1000 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 Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus, compared with Western Australia and Australiadays0132538502016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus 39WA 37Australia 30
  • Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus
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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 periodRoyal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus (days)WA (days)Australia (days)
2016–17181826
2017–18292827
2018–19313128
2019–20423328
2020–21363529
2021–22323128
2022–23424030
2023–24453332
2024–25393730

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

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