Surgery Waits

Prostate surgery waiting time at Fiona Stanley Hospital

The median wait for prostate surgery — published by the source as "Prostatectomy (transurethral or open)" — at this public hospital in the Murdoch area of Western Australia was 42 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
42 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
167 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
0.0%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 29 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 73 days in 2014–15 to 42 days in 2024–25 — down 42% — while the national median rose from 40 days to 55 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, about 12 km away, at 33 days. Here, 0.0% 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
Fiona Stanley Hospital42 days0.0%167 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)48 days6.2%845 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 Fiona Stanley Hospital, compared with Western Australia and Australiadays03163941252011–122014–152017–182020–212023–242024–25Fiona Stanley Hospital 42WA 48Australia 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 periodFiona Stanley Hospital (days)WA (days)Australia (days)
2011–12not reported for this period3442
2012–13not reported for this period3139
2013–14not reported for this period2643
2014–15732840
2015–16563342
2016–17383241
2017–18913446
2018–19554444
2019–20834644
2020–21824654
2021–221096248
2022–23465660
2023–24424858
2024–25424855

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

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