Prostate surgery waiting time at Bass Coast Health

Median wait, long waits and volumes for prostate surgery — published by the source as “Prostatectomy (transurethral or open)” — at this public hospital in the South Dudley 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: 25 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 42 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 103 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 10 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Frankston Hospital, about 64 km away, at 24 days.

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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
Bass Coast Health	25 days	not published	42 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.

West Gippsland Healthcare Group [Warragul]VIC · about 57 km away69 days
Frankston Public Surgical CentreVIC · about 64 km away34 days
Frankston HospitalVIC · about 64 km away24 days
Casey HospitalVIC · about 66 km away24 days
Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin]VIC · about 89 km away23 days
Latrobe Regional Hospital [Traralgon]VIC · about 89 km away55 days
Maroondah Hospital [East Ringwood]VIC · about 94 km away51 days
Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 97 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 Prostatectomy (transurethral or open), by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Bass Coast Health (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	not reported for this period	33	42
2012–13	not reported for this period	27	39
2013–14	not reported for this period	34	43
2014–15	not reported for this period	29	40
2015–16	not reported for this period	32	42
2016–17	not reported for this period	30	41
2017–18	not reported for this period	33	46
2018–19	not reported for this period	34	44
2019–20	not reported for this period	30	44
2020–21	not reported for this period	36	54
2021–22	not reported for this period	28	48
2022–23	not reported for this period	50	60
2023–24	not reported for this period	48	58
2024–25	25	42	55

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

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