Nephrectomy waiting time at St George Hospital NSW

The median wait for nephrectomy at this public hospital in the Kogarah area of New South Wales was 28 days in 2024–25.

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: 28 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 29 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 20 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 38 days in 2016–17 to 28 days in 2024–25 — down 26% — while the national median rose from 26 days to 30 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, about 10 km away, at 14 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
St George Hospital NSW	28 days	not published	29 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.

Royal Prince Alfred HospitalNSW · about 10 km away14 days
Prince of Wales HospitalNSW · about 11 km away23 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 15 km away24 days
Royal North Shore HospitalNSW · about 17 km away29 days
Liverpool HospitalNSW · about 19 km away36 days
Westmead HospitalNSW · about 23 km away77 days
Campbelltown HospitalNSW · about 33 km away41 days
Nepean HospitalNSW · about 45 km away73 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

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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 period	St George Hospital NSW (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	38	29	26
2017–18	35	29	27
2018–19	30	28	28
2019–20	31	28	28
2020–21	28	29	29
2021–22	35	31	28
2022–23	44	32	30
2023–24	38	44	32
2024–25	28	36	30

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

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