Prostate surgery waiting time at St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst]

The median wait for prostate surgery — published by the source as "Prostatectomy (transurethral or open)" — at this public hospital in the Darlinghurst area of New South Wales was 53 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: 53 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 43 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 115 days in 2011–12 to 53 days in 2024–25 — down 54% — while the national median rose from 42 days to 55 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, about 4 km away, at 26 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
St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst]	53 days	not published	40 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	77 days	5.0%	2707 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.

Royal Prince Alfred HospitalNSW · about 4 km away26 days
Prince of Wales HospitalNSW · about 5 km away50 days
Royal North Shore HospitalNSW · about 7 km away105 days
Canterbury HospitalNSW · about 12 km away84 days
St George Hospital NSWNSW · about 13 km away70 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 13 km away69 days
Northern Beaches HospitalNSW · about 14 km away63 days
Bankstown Lidcombe HospitalNSW · about 19 km away82 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst]
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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	St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst] (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	115	56	42
2012–13	60	54	39
2013–14	98	60	43
2014–15	83	59	40
2015–16	81	62	42
2016–17	65	57	41
2017–18	66	63	46
2018–19	94	63	44
2019–20	56	59	44
2020–21	75	71	54
2021–22	71	59	48
2022–23	59	78	60
2023–24	50	75	58
2024–25	53	77	55

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

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