Surgery Waits

Prostate surgery waiting time at Cessnock Hospital

The median wait for prostate surgery — published by the source as "Prostatectomy (transurethral or open)" — at this public hospital in the Cessnock area of New South Wales was 110 days in 2024–25.

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

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

Median wait
110 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
15 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 94 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 41 days in 2013–14 to 110 days in 2024–25 — up 168% — while the national median rose from 43 days to 55 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is John Hunter Hospital, about 34 km away, at 88 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
Cessnock Hospital110 daysnot published15 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)77 days5.0%2707 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)55 days4.0%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.

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for prostatectomy (transurethral or open) by financial year at Cessnock Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays0501001502002011–122014–152017–182020–212023–242024–25Cessnock Hospital 110NSW 77Australia 55
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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 periodCessnock Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2011–12not published5642
2012–13not published5439
2013–14416043
2014–15195940
2015–16not published6242
2016–17265741
2017–18426346
2018–19546344
2019–20645944
2020–21427154
2021–22255948
2022–23not published7860
2023–241677558
2024–251107755

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

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