Surgery Waits

Nephrectomy waiting time at St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]

The median wait for nephrectomy at this public hospital in the Fitzroy area of Victoria was 49 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
49 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
62 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 42 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 38 days in 2016–17 to 49 days in 2024–25 — up 29% — while the national median rose from 26 days to 30 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus], about 2 km away, at 28 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
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]49 days0.0%62 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)26 days0.0%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 St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne], compared with Victoria and Australiadays0193856752016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne] 49VIC 26Australia 30
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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 periodSt Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne] (days)VIC (days)Australia (days)
2016–17382326
2017–18212327
2018–19142328
2019–20152228
2020–21282329
2021–22682228
2022–23322330
2023–24442332
2024–25492630

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

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