Nephrectomy waiting time at Royal Brisbane & Women's Hospital

The median wait for nephrectomy at this public hospital in the Herston area of Queensland was 32 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: 32 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 84 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 29 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 26 days in 2016–17 to 32 days in 2024–25 — up 23% — while the national median rose from 26 days to 30 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Queensland Children's Hospital, about 4 km away, at 7 days. 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
Royal Brisbane & Women's Hospital	32 days	0.0%	84 surgeries
Queensland (all public hospitals)	30 days	0.2%	593 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.

Queensland Children's HospitalQLD · about 4 km away7 days
Mater Adult HospitalQLD · about 4 km away97 days
Princess Alexandra HospitalQLD · about 6 km away26 days
Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee HospitalQLD · about 13 km away32 days
Redcliffe HospitalQLD · about 25 km away36 days
Ipswich HospitalQLD · about 33 km away42 days
Gold Coast University HospitalQLD · about 67 km away20 days
Sunshine Coast University HospitalQLD · about 78 km away31 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	Royal Brisbane & Women's Hospital (days)	QLD (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	26	25	26
2017–18	54	27	27
2018–19	30	28	28
2019–20	41	29	28
2020–21	53	30	29
2021–22	30	28	28
2022–23	30	30	30
2023–24	30	31	32
2024–25	32	30	30

Queensland's quarterly figures for urology

These are not figures for nephrectomy. Queensland reports by surgical specialty, not by procedure. A specialty covers many different operations, so a specialty figure is never a figure for any one of them.

Queensland Health publishes its own figures every three months. They count differently from the national figures above and are never combined with them. This quarter ends after the national reporting period, so it is the more recent of the two.

Covers July to September 2025, published by Queensland Health on 28 October 2025. Reported as Royal Brisbane & Women's.

Patients treated: 216 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Treated within the recommended time: 94.0%July to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Still waiting at the end of the quarter: 124 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Waiting longer than recommended: 1 patientJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025

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

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