Prostate surgery waiting time at St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]

Median wait, long waits and volumes for prostate surgery — published by the source as “Prostatectomy (transurethral or open)” — at this public hospital in the Fitzroy 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: 88 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 134 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 6.0%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 79 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 89 days in 2011–12 to 88 days in 2024–25 — down 1% — while the national median rose from 42 days to 55 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is St Vincent's On the Park, about 1 km away, at 27 days. Here, 6.0% 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
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]	88 days	6.0%	134 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.

St Vincent's On the ParkVIC · about 1 km away27 days
Peter MacCallum Cancer CentreVIC · about 2 km away82 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 2 km away54 days
The AlfredVIC · about 4 km away21 days
Western Hospital [Footscray]VIC · about 8 km away41 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 8 km away64 days
Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]VIC · about 9 km away28 days
Williamstown HospitalVIC · about 10 km away44 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	St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne] (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	89	33	42
2012–13	98	27	39
2013–14	75	34	43
2014–15	31	29	40
2015–16	26	32	42
2016–17	37	30	41
2017–18	21	33	46
2018–19	35	34	44
2019–20	28	30	44
2020–21	111	36	54
2021–22	117	28	48
2022–23	168	50	60
2023–24	115	48	58
2024–25	88	42	55

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

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