Surgery Waits

Prostate surgery waiting time at Nepean Hospital

The median wait for prostate surgery — published by the source as "Prostatectomy (transurethral or open)" — at this public hospital in the Cambridge Park area of New South Wales was 92 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
92 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
288 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
6.3%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 84 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 85 days in 2011–12 to 92 days in 2024–25 — up 8% — while the national median rose from 42 days to 55 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Blacktown Hospital, about 19 km away, at 78 days. Here, 6.3% 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
Nepean Hospital92 days6.3%288 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 Nepean Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays03163941252011–122014–152017–182020–212023–242024–25Nepean Hospital 92NSW 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 periodNepean Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2011–12855642
2012–13825439
2013–14886043
2014–15835940
2015–16896242
2016–17855741
2017–18846346
2018–19826344
2019–20655944
2020–21757154
2021–22665948
2022–23877860
2023–241197558
2024–25927755

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

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