Prostate surgery waiting time at West Gippsland Healthcare Group [Warragul]

Median wait, long waits and volumes for prostate surgery — published by the source as “Prostatectomy (transurethral or open)” — at this public hospital in the Warragul 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: 69 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 40 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 56 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 69 days in 2024–25 — up 47% — while the national median rose from 42 days to 55 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Latrobe Regional Hospital [Traralgon], about 48 km away, at 55 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
West Gippsland Healthcare Group [Warragul]	69 days	not published	40 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.

Latrobe Regional Hospital [Traralgon]VIC · about 48 km away55 days
Casey HospitalVIC · about 53 km away24 days
Bass Coast HealthVIC · about 57 km away25 days
Frankston Public Surgical CentreVIC · about 69 km away34 days
Frankston HospitalVIC · about 70 km away24 days
Maroondah Hospital [East Ringwood]VIC · about 72 km away51 days
Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin]VIC · about 81 km away23 days
Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 81 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	West Gippsland Healthcare Group [Warragul] (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	47	33	42
2012–13	48	27	39
2013–14	36	34	43
2014–15	32	29	40
2015–16	43	32	42
2016–17	31	30	41
2017–18	44	33	46
2018–19	36	34	44
2019–20	63	30	44
2020–21	40	36	54
2021–22	24	28	48
2022–23	104	50	60
2023–24	49	48	58
2024–25	69	42	55

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

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