Nephrectomy waiting time at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital

The median wait for nephrectomy at this public hospital in the Kings Park area of Western Australia was 26 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: 26 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 47 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 14 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 26 days in 2024–25 — up 73% — 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.

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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
Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital	26 days	not published	47 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)	37 days	0.4%	280 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.

Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street CampusWA · about 5 km away39 days
Osborne Park HospitalWA · about 9 km away53 days
Fiona Stanley HospitalWA · about 12 km away43 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 1000 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital
WA
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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	Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	15	18	26
2017–18	28	28	27
2018–19	44	31	28
2019–20	32	33	28
2020–21	28	35	29
2021–22	27	31	28
2022–23	39	40	30
2023–24	27	33	32
2024–25	26	37	30

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

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