Surgery Waits

Prostate surgery waiting time at Mater Adult Hospital

The median wait for prostate surgery — published by the source as "Prostatectomy (transurethral or open)" — at this public hospital in the Dutton Park area of Queensland was 135 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
135 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
175 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
5.1%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 98 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 2012–13 to 135 days in 2024–25 — up 229% — while the national median rose from 39 days to 55 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Princess Alexandra Hospital, about 2 km away, at 35 days. Here, 5.1% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 4.0%.

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
Mater Adult Hospital135 days5.1%175 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 Mater Adult Hospital, compared with Queensland and Australiadays038751131502011–122014–152017–182020–212023–242024–25Mater Adult Hospital 135QLD 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 periodMater Adult Hospital (days)QLD (days)Australia (days)
2011–12not reported for this period3842
2012–13413639
2013–14564043
2014–15not reported for this period3440
2015–16543542
2016–17723641
2017–18754546
2018–19653944
2019–20824344
2020–21685254
2021–22774348
2022–23924960
2023–241215258
2024–251355055

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 Mater Adult.

Patients treated
343 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Treated within the recommended time
70.3%July to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Still waiting at the end of the quarter
931 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Waiting longer than recommended
367 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025

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

All surgery at Mater Adult Hospital · Prostate surgery across Australia · Prostate surgery in Queensland