Nephrectomy waiting times in South Australia

Public hospitals in South Australia ranked by their median wait for nephrectomy.

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

6 public hospitals in South Australia reported nephrectomy in 2024–25. The state median was 28 days; the national median was 30 days.

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.

2 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.

Flinders Medical Centre26 days
Lyell McEwin Hospital26 days
Royal Adelaide Hospital43 days
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital44 days
Modbury Hospitalnot published
Women's and Children's Hospitalnot published

Nephrectomy in South Australia 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	Flinders Medical Centre	26 days	0.0%	62 surgeries
1	Lyell McEwin Hospital	26 days	0.0%	68 surgeries
3	Royal Adelaide Hospital	43 days	8.0%	88 surgeries
4	The Queen Elizabeth Hospital	44 days	not published	28 surgeries
unranked	Modbury Hospital	not published	not published	not published
unranked	Women's and Children's Hospital	not published	not published	6 surgeries

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 South Australia.