Prostate surgery waiting time at Fremantle Hospital and Health Service

The median wait for prostate surgery — published by the source as "Prostatectomy (transurethral or open)" — at this public hospital in the Fremantle area of Western Australia was 150 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: 150 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 87 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 18.4%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 100 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 42 days in 2011–12 to 150 days in 2024–25 — up 257% — while the national median rose from 42 days to 55 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Fiona Stanley Hospital, about 9 km away, at 42 days. Here, 18.4% 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
Fremantle Hospital and Health Service	150 days	18.4%	87 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.

Fiona Stanley HospitalWA · about 9 km away42 days
Sir Charles Gairdner HospitalWA · about 12 km away33 days
Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street CampusWA · about 16 km away98 days
Osborne Park HospitalWA · about 20 km away53 days
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial HospitalWA · about 27 km away71 days
St John of God Midland Public HospitalWA · about 30 km away15 days
Joondalup Health Campus (Public)WA · about 36 km away27 days
Peel Health CampusWA · about 53 km away17 days

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

How the wait has changed

Fremantle Hospital and Health Service
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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	Fremantle Hospital and Health Service (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	42	34	42
2012–13	26	31	39
2013–14	18	26	43
2014–15	15	28	40
2015–16	not reported for this period	33	42
2016–17	not reported for this period	32	41
2017–18	not reported for this period	34	46
2018–19	97	44	44
2019–20	42	46	44
2020–21	82	46	54
2021–22	88	62	48
2022–23	139	56	60
2023–24	231	48	58
2024–25	150	48	55

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

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