Prostate surgery waiting time at Sir Charles Gairdner 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 Kings Park area of Western 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: 33 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 57 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 3.5%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 20 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 67 days in 2011–12 to 33 days in 2024–25 — down 51% — while the national median rose from 42 days to 55 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is St John of God Midland Public Hospital, about 20 km away, at 15 days. Here, 3.5% 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
Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital	33 days	3.5%	57 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)	48 days	6.2%	845 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.

Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street CampusWA · about 5 km away98 days
Osborne Park HospitalWA · about 9 km away53 days
Fremantle Hospital and Health ServiceWA · about 12 km away150 days
Fiona Stanley HospitalWA · about 12 km away42 days
St John of God Midland Public HospitalWA · about 20 km away15 days
Joondalup Health Campus (Public)WA · about 26 km away27 days
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial HospitalWA · about 27 km away71 days
Peel Health CampusWA · about 63 km away17 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital
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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	Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	67	34	42
2012–13	65	31	39
2013–14	28	26	43
2014–15	33	28	40
2015–16	25	33	42
2016–17	32	32	41
2017–18	43	34	46
2018–19	44	44	44
2019–20	32	46	44
2020–21	29	46	54
2021–22	41	62	48
2022–23	36	56	60
2023–24	30	48	58
2024–25	33	48	55

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

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