Prostate surgery waiting time at Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital]

Median wait, long waits and volumes for prostate surgery — published by the source as “Prostatectomy (transurethral or open)” — at this public hospital in the Ballarat Central area of Victoria, with the nearest alternatives that published a figure.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026

Median wait: 73 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 128 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 103 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 62 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 27 days in 2011–12 to 73 days in 2024–25 — up 170% — while the national median rose from 42 days to 55 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is University Hospital Geelong, about 80 km away, at 51 days. Here, 0.0% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 4.0%.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Prostatectomy (transurethral or open), 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital]	73 days	0.0%	128 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	42 days	4.5%	2702 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	55 days	4.0%	8810 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 55 days marks the national median.

University Hospital GeelongVIC · about 80 km away51 days
Werribee Mercy HospitalVIC · about 83 km away86 days
Western Hospital [Footscray]VIC · about 95 km away41 days
Williamstown HospitalVIC · about 98 km away44 days
The Bendigo HospitalVIC · about 98 km away78 days
Peter MacCallum Cancer CentreVIC · about 101 km away82 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 101 km away54 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 103 km away88 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 Prostatectomy (transurethral or open), by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital] (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	27	33	42
2012–13	26	27	39
2013–14	29	34	43
2014–15	24	29	40
2015–16	41	32	42
2016–17	42	30	41
2017–18	43	33	46
2018–19	42	34	44
2019–20	42	30	44
2020–21	67	36	54
2021–22	43	28	48
2022–23	51	50	60
2023–24	76	48	58
2024–25	73	42	55

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

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