Prostate surgery waiting times in Australian public hospitals

The national median wait for prostate surgery in Australian public hospitals was 55 days in 2024–25 — from 15 days at Gawler Health Service to 307 days at Port Pirie Regional Health Service. The source publishes this surgery as “Prostatectomy (transurethral or open)”.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026

Across Australia, the median wait for prostate surgery in public hospitals was 55 days in 2024–25, from 8810 surgeries. 4.0% of people waited more than 365 days. 103 public hospitals published a median wait for it.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick “Prostatectomy (transurethral or open)” and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.

State by state

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 55 days marks the national median.

Victoria42 days
Western Australia48 days
Queensland50 days
South Australia60 days
New South Wales77 days
Northern Territorynot published
Tasmanianot published

Prostatectomy (transurethral or open) in public hospitals by state and territory, 2024–25. States with the same median share a rank. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Rank	State or territory	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
1	Victoria	42 days	4.5%	2702 surgeries
2	Western Australia	48 days	6.2%	845 surgeries
3	Queensland	50 days	0.8%	1769 surgeries
4	South Australia	60 days	3.9%	675 surgeries
5	New South Wales	77 days	5.0%	2707 surgeries
unranked	Northern Territory	not published	not published	47 surgeries
unranked	Tasmania	not published	not published	65 surgeries

How the wait has changed

Australia
VIC
WA
QLD

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Median wait in days for Prostatectomy (transurethral or open), by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Australia (days)	VIC (days)	WA (days)	QLD (days)
2011–12	42	33	34	38
2012–13	39	27	31	36
2013–14	43	34	26	40
2014–15	40	29	28	34
2015–16	42	32	33	35
2016–17	41	30	32	36
2017–18	46	33	34	45
2018–19	44	34	44	39
2019–20	44	30	46	43
2020–21	54	36	46	52
2021–22	48	28	62	43
2022–23	60	50	56	49
2023–24	58	48	48	52
2024–25	55	42	48	50

Common questions

How long is the wait for prostate surgery in a public hospital?

The national median was 55 days in 2024–25 — half of people waited less than that, half waited longer. State medians ranged from 42 days in Victoria to 77 days in New South Wales.

Which public hospital has the shortest wait for prostate surgery?

Of the 103 public hospitals that published a median for 2024–25, Gawler Health Service reported the shortest (15 days) and Port Pirie Regional Health Service the longest (307 days). A shorter median is not a recommendation — how to read these figures.

How many people waited more than a year?

4.0% of people who had prostate surgery in an Australian public hospital in 2024–25 waited more than 365 days.

What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

The source calls this collection “elective surgery”. This site calls it planned surgery, because the surgery is planned in advance rather than optional — the methodology explains the wording.