Prostate surgery waiting time at Albany Hospital

The median wait for prostate surgery — published by the source as "Prostatectomy (transurethral or open)" — at this public hospital in the Spencer Park area of Western Australia was 190 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: 190 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 40 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 101 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 65 days in 2011–12 to 190 days in 2024–25 — up 192% — while the national median rose from 42 days to 55 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Bunbury Hospital, about 276 km away, at 43 days.

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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
Albany Hospital	190 days	not published	40 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.

Bunbury HospitalWA · about 276 km away43 days
Busselton Health CampusWA · about 281 km away99 days
Peel Health CampusWA · about 339 km away17 days
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial HospitalWA · about 364 km away71 days
Fiona Stanley HospitalWA · about 378 km away42 days
Fremantle Hospital and Health ServiceWA · about 383 km away150 days
St John of God Midland Public HospitalWA · about 388 km away15 days
Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street CampusWA · about 388 km away98 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 500 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Albany Hospital
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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	Albany Hospital (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	65	34	42
2012–13	106	31	39
2013–14	43	26	43
2014–15	50	28	40
2015–16	51	33	42
2016–17	35	32	41
2017–18	126	34	46
2018–19	120	44	44
2019–20	87	46	44
2020–21	79	46	54
2021–22	65	62	48
2022–23	135	56	60
2023–24	114	48	58
2024–25	190	48	55

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

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