Surgery Waits

Nephrectomy waiting time at Lismore Base Hospital

The median wait for nephrectomy at this public hospital in the Lismore area of New South Wales 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
12 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 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 15 days in 2016–17 to 49 days in 2024–25 — up 227% — while the national median rose from 26 days to 30 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Tweed Valley Hospital, about 75 km away, at 41 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.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Nephrectomy, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Lismore Base Hospital49 daysnot published12 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)36 days0.8%746 surgeries
Queensland (all public hospitals)30 days0.2%593 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.

Some of these hospitals are in another state — a public hospital referral can cross the border, so ask your GP what that would mean for you.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for nephrectomy by financial year at Lismore Base Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays02550751002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Lismore Base Hospital 49NSW 36Australia 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 periodLismore Base Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–17152926
2017–18282927
2018–19not published2828
2019–20262828
2020–21282929
2021–22553128
2022–23303230
2023–241004432
2024–25493630

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

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