Nephrectomy waiting time at Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]

The median wait for nephrectomy at this public hospital in the Eaglemont area of Victoria was 19 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: 19 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 107 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 5 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 23 days in 2016–17 to 19 days in 2024–25 — down 17% — while the national median rose from 26 days to 30 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period. Here, 0.0% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 0.6%.

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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
Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]	19 days	0.0%	107 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	26 days	0.0%	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.

Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 8 km away26 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 9 km away49 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 10 km away28 days
Peter MacCallum Cancer CentreVIC · about 10 km away68 days
Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville]VIC · about 11 km away60 days
The AlfredVIC · about 12 km away21 days
The Northern Hospital [Epping]VIC · about 12 km away30 days
Western Hospital [Footscray]VIC · about 16 km away22 days

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

How the wait has changed

Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]
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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	Austin Hospital [Heidelberg] (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	23	23	26
2017–18	22	23	27
2018–19	16	23	28
2019–20	23	22	28
2020–21	17	23	29
2021–22	17	22	28
2022–23	17	23	30
2023–24	16	23	32
2024–25	19	26	30

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

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