Prostate surgery waiting time at Bunbury Hospital

The median wait for prostate surgery — published by the source as "Prostatectomy (transurethral or open)" — at this public hospital in the College Grove area of Western Australia was 43 days in 2024–25.

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

These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.

Median wait: 43 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 57 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 0.0%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 30 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 63 days in 2011–12 to 43 days in 2024–25 — down 32% — while the national median rose from 42 days to 55 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Peel Health Campus, about 93 km away, at 17 days. Here, 0.0% 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
Bunbury Hospital	43 days	0.0%	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.

Busselton Health CampusWA · about 44 km away99 days
Peel Health CampusWA · about 93 km away17 days
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial HospitalWA · about 142 km away71 days
Fiona Stanley HospitalWA · about 145 km away42 days
Fremantle Hospital and Health ServiceWA · about 146 km away150 days
Sir Charles Gairdner HospitalWA · about 156 km away33 days
Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street CampusWA · about 158 km away98 days
Osborne Park HospitalWA · about 165 km away53 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	Bunbury Hospital (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	63	34	42
2012–13	30	31	39
2013–14	28	26	43
2014–15	36	28	40
2015–16	42	33	42
2016–17	35	32	41
2017–18	33	34	46
2018–19	45	44	44
2019–20	23	46	44
2020–21	39	46	54
2021–22	43	62	48
2022–23	52	56	60
2023–24	37	48	58
2024–25	43	48	55

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

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