Prostate surgery waiting time at Werribee Mercy Hospital

The median wait for prostate surgery — published by the source as "Prostatectomy (transurethral or open)" — at this public hospital in the Hoppers Crossing area of Victoria was 86 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: 86 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 20 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 76 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 35 days in 2011–12 to 86 days in 2024–25 — up 146% — while the national median rose from 42 days to 55 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Williamstown Hospital, about 17 km away, at 44 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
Werribee Mercy Hospital	86 days	not published	20 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	42 days	4.5%	2702 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.

Williamstown HospitalVIC · about 17 km away44 days
Western Hospital [Footscray]VIC · about 20 km away41 days
Peter MacCallum Cancer CentreVIC · about 25 km away82 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 25 km away54 days
The AlfredVIC · about 25 km away21 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 26 km away88 days
St Vincent's On the ParkVIC · about 26 km away27 days
Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin]VIC · about 32 km away23 days

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

How the wait has changed

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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	Werribee Mercy Hospital (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	35	33	42
2012–13	25	27	39
2013–14	34	34	43
2014–15	42	29	40
2015–16	24	32	42
2016–17	34	30	41
2017–18	not published	33	46
2018–19	not published	34	44
2019–20	not reported for this period	30	44
2020–21	26	36	54
2021–22	35	28	48
2022–23	46	50	60
2023–24	117	48	58
2024–25	86	42	55

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

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