Surgery Waits

Prostate surgery waiting time at Liverpool Hospital

The median wait for prostate surgery — published by the source as "Prostatectomy (transurethral or open)" — at this public hospital in the Warwick Farm area of New South Wales was 90 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
90 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
93 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
6.5%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 81 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 72 days in 2011–12 to 90 days in 2024–25 — up 25% — while the national median rose from 42 days to 55 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital, about 8 km away, at 82 days. Here, 6.5% 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
Liverpool Hospital90 days6.5%93 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 Liverpool Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays03163941252011–122014–152017–182020–212023–242024–25Liverpool Hospital 90NSW 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 periodLiverpool Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2011–12725642
2012–13345439
2013–14446043
2014–15275940
2015–16256242
2016–17545741
2017–18756346
2018–19636344
2019–20735944
2020–21697154
2021–22815948
2022–231127860
2023–24927558
2024–25907755

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

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