Prostate surgery waiting time at University Hospital Geelong

Median wait, long waits and volumes for prostate surgery — published by the source as “Prostatectomy (transurethral or open)” — at this public hospital in the Geelong 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: 51 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 153 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 0.7%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 39 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 93 days in 2011–12 to 51 days in 2024–25 — down 45% — while the national median rose from 42 days to 55 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Williamstown Hospital, about 56 km away, at 44 days. Here, 0.7% 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
University Hospital Geelong	51 days	0.7%	153 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.

Werribee Mercy HospitalVIC · about 41 km away86 days
Williamstown HospitalVIC · about 56 km away44 days
Western Hospital [Footscray]VIC · about 61 km away41 days
The AlfredVIC · about 64 km away21 days
Peter MacCallum Cancer CentreVIC · about 65 km away82 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 65 km away54 days
St Vincent's On the ParkVIC · about 66 km away27 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 66 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	University Hospital Geelong (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	93	33	42
2012–13	55	27	39
2013–14	36	34	43
2014–15	35	29	40
2015–16	42	32	42
2016–17	54	30	41
2017–18	48	33	46
2018–19	61	34	44
2019–20	48	30	44
2020–21	70	36	54
2021–22	50	28	48
2022–23	86	50	60
2023–24	81	48	58
2024–25	51	42	55

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

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