Surgery Waits

Prostate surgery waiting time at Griffith Base Hospital

The median wait for prostate surgery — published by the source as "Prostatectomy (transurethral or open)" — at this public hospital in the Griffith area of New South Wales was 48 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
48 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
10 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 34 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Wagga Wagga Hospital, about 152 km away, at 30 days.

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
Griffith Base Hospital48 daysnot published10 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)77 days5.0%2707 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)42 days4.5%2702 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.

Some of these hospitals are in another state — a public hospital referral can cross the border, so ask your GP what that would mean for you.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for prostatectomy (transurethral or open) by financial year at Griffith Base Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays02550751002011–122014–152017–182020–212023–242024–25Griffith Base Hospital 48NSW 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 periodGriffith Base Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2011–12not published5642
2012–13not published5439
2013–14not published6043
2014–15not published5940
2015–16not published6242
2016–17not published5741
2017–18not reported for this period6346
2018–19not reported for this period6344
2019–20not published5944
2020–21not published7154
2021–22not published5948
2022–23not published7860
2023–24not published7558
2024–25487755

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

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