Prostate surgery waiting time at Royal Adelaide 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 Adelaide area of South Australia, 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: 100 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 243 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 4.9%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 89 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 47 days in 2011–12 to 100 days in 2024–25 — up 113% — while the national median rose from 42 days to 55 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, about 6 km away, at 79 days. Here, 4.9% 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
Royal Adelaide Hospital	100 days	4.9%	243 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)	60 days	3.9%	675 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.

The Queen Elizabeth HospitalSA · about 6 km away79 days
Flinders Medical CentreSA · about 11 km away39 days
Modbury HospitalSA · about 13 km away30 days
Lyell McEwin HospitalSA · about 21 km away23 days
Gawler Health ServiceSA · about 39 km away15 days
Murray Bridge Soldiers' Memorial HospitalSA · about 67 km away37 days
Port Pirie Regional Health ServiceSA · about 201 km away307 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	Royal Adelaide Hospital (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	47	36	42
2012–13	40	36	39
2013–14	57	41	43
2014–15	86	42	40
2015–16	76	41	42
2016–17	77	51	41
2017–18	77	56	46
2018–19	51	42	44
2019–20	58	48	44
2020–21	83	56	54
2021–22	65	57	48
2022–23	84	62	60
2023–24	82	63	58
2024–25	100	60	55

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

All surgery at Royal Adelaide Hospital · Prostate surgery across Australia · Prostate surgery in South Australia