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Prostate surgery waiting times in Victoria

The median wait for prostate surgery in Victoria public hospitals was 42 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The national median was 55 days. The source publishes this surgery as "Prostatectomy (transurethral or open)".

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026.

27 public hospitals in Victoria reported prostate surgery in 2024–25. They are ranked by their published median wait alone, shortest first.

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.

1 hospital has no published median wait for this surgery in this period. They are listed last, marked "not published", and are never ranked.

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 55 days marks the national median.

Prostatectomy (transurethral or open) in Victoria public hospitals, 2024–25. Hospitals with the same median share a rank and the next rank is skipped. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Rank Hospital Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
1 The Alfred 21 days 0.0% 103 surgeries
2 Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin] 23 days 0.0% 60 surgeries
3 Casey Hospital 24 days 2.4% 169 surgeries
3 Frankston Hospital 24 days 0.0% 107 surgeries
5 Bass Coast Health 25 days not published 42 surgeries
5 Northeast Health Wangaratta 25 days 0.0% 89 surgeries
7 St Vincent's On the Park 27 days not published 12 surgeries
8 Austin Hospital [Heidelberg] 28 days 0.0% 153 surgeries
9 Box Hill Hospital 31 days 2.5% 161 surgeries
10 Frankston Public Surgical Centre 34 days not published 32 surgeries
11 The Northern Hospital [Epping] 37 days 0.0% 292 surgeries
12 Western Hospital [Footscray] 41 days 12.6% 159 surgeries
13 Williamstown Hospital 44 days 7.3% 123 surgeries
14 Maroondah Hospital [East Ringwood] 51 days not published 17 surgeries
14 University Hospital Geelong 51 days 0.7% 153 surgeries
16 Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus] 54 days 6.5% 123 surgeries
17 Albury Wodonga Health [Wodonga Campus] 55 days 25.0% 120 surgeries
17 Latrobe Regional Hospital [Traralgon] 55 days not published 30 surgeries
19 Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West] 64 days 0.6% 160 surgeries
20 West Gippsland Healthcare Group [Warragul] 69 days not published 40 surgeries
21 Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital] 73 days 0.0% 128 surgeries
22 The Bendigo Hospital 78 days 24.1% 116 surgeries
23 Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre 82 days 0.0% 114 surgeries
24 Werribee Mercy Hospital 86 days not published 20 surgeries
25 St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne] 88 days 6.0% 134 surgeries
26 Goulburn Valley Health [Shepparton] 94 days not published 39 surgeries
unranked South West Healthcare [Warrnambool] not published not published 6 surgeries

Ranked by area in Victoria: near Box Hill · near Clayton · near Fitzroy · near Frankston · near Heidelberg · near St Albans.

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The median wait for prostate surgery in Victoria public hospitals was 42 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

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Surgery Waits, "Prostate surgery waiting times in Victoria", 2024–25 data released 28 May 2026, https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/prostate-surgery/vic/, accessed 28 May 2026.

Attribution: Surgery Waits (https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/prostate-surgery/vic/), from Australian Institute of Health and Welfare MyHospitals data, CC BY 3.0 AU. Reference period 2024–25, released 28 May 2026.

What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

Waiting times differ across state borders, and a referral can cross one — read what that means. Compare with every other state, or see every surgery reported in Victoria.