Surgery Waits

Prostate surgery waiting time at Ipswich Hospital

The median wait for prostate surgery — published by the source as "Prostatectomy (transurethral or open)" — at this public hospital in the Ipswich area of Queensland was 69 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
69 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
44 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 56 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 24 days in 2011–12 to 69 days in 2024–25 — up 188% — while the national median rose from 42 days to 55 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Hospital, about 29 km away, at 51 days.

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.

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
Ipswich Hospital69 daysnot published44 surgeries
Queensland (all public hospitals)50 days0.8%1769 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 Ipswich Hospital, compared with Queensland and Australiadays0193856752011–122014–152017–182020–212023–242024–25Ipswich Hospital 69QLD 50Australia 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 periodIpswich Hospital (days)QLD (days)Australia (days)
2011–12243842
2012–13343639
2013–14444043
2014–15473440
2015–16613542
2016–17483641
2017–18494546
2018–19503944
2019–20264344
2020–21235254
2021–22264348
2022–23274960
2023–24285258
2024–25695055

Queensland's quarterly figures for urology

These are not figures for prostatectomy (transurethral or open). Queensland reports by surgical specialty, not by procedure. A specialty covers many different operations, so a specialty figure is never a figure for any one of them.

Queensland Health publishes its own figures every three months. They count differently from the national figures above and are never combined with them. This quarter ends after the national reporting period, so it is the more recent of the two.

Covers July to September 2025, published by Queensland Health on 28 October 2025. Reported as Ipswich.

Patients treated
157 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Treated within the recommended time
28.7%July to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Still waiting at the end of the quarter
235 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Waiting longer than recommended
65 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025

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

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