Prostate surgery waiting time at Frankston Hospital

The median wait for prostate surgery — published by the source as "Prostatectomy (transurethral or open)" — at this public hospital in the Frankston area of Victoria was 24 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: 24 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 107 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 8 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 44 days in 2011–12 to 24 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 Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin], about 26 km away, at 23 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
Frankston Hospital	24 days	0.0%	107 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.

Frankston Public Surgical CentreVIC · about 1 km away34 days
Casey HospitalVIC · about 22 km away24 days
Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin]VIC · about 26 km away23 days
The AlfredVIC · about 36 km away21 days
Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 37 km away31 days
Williamstown HospitalVIC · about 38 km away44 days
Maroondah Hospital [East Ringwood]VIC · about 40 km away51 days
St Vincent's On the ParkVIC · about 40 km away27 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	Frankston Hospital (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	44	33	42
2012–13	20	27	39
2013–14	35	34	43
2014–15	33	29	40
2015–16	49	32	42
2016–17	37	30	41
2017–18	26	33	46
2018–19	61	34	44
2019–20	55	30	44
2020–21	48	36	54
2021–22	37	28	48
2022–23	46	50	60
2023–24	34	48	58
2024–25	24	42	55

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

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