Nephrectomy waiting time at Western Hospital [Footscray]

The median wait for nephrectomy at this public hospital in the Footscray area of Victoria was 22 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: 22 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 60 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 9 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 21 days in 2016–17 to 22 days in 2024–25 — up 5% — while the national median rose from 26 days to 30 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is The Alfred, about 10 km away, at 21 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
Western Hospital [Footscray]	22 days	0.0%	60 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.

Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville]VIC · about 6 km away60 days
Peter MacCallum Cancer CentreVIC · about 6 km away68 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 6 km away28 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 8 km away49 days
The AlfredVIC · about 10 km away21 days
Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]VIC · about 16 km away19 days
The Northern Hospital [Epping]VIC · about 19 km away30 days
Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 21 km away26 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	Western Hospital [Footscray] (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	21	23	26
2017–18	24	23	27
2018–19	21	23	28
2019–20	15	22	28
2020–21	20	23	29
2021–22	22	22	28
2022–23	66	23	30
2023–24	21	23	32
2024–25	22	26	30

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

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