Prostatectomy (transurethral or open) waiting time at Cairns Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Prostatectomy (transurethral or open) at this public hospital, with the nearest alternatives that published a figure.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026

Median wait: 39 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 135 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 26 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

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
Cairns Hospital	39 days	0.0%	135 surgeries
Queensland (all public hospitals)	50 days	0.8%	1769 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.

Townsville University HospitalQLD · about 288 km away84 days
Mackay Base HospitalQLD · about 590 km away83 days
Rockhampton HospitalQLD · about 872 km away122 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 1000 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 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	Cairns Hospital (days)	QLD (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	not reported for this period	38	42
2012–13	not reported for this period	36	39
2013–14	not published	40	43
2014–15	18	34	40
2015–16	28	35	42
2016–17	22	36	41
2017–18	27	45	46
2018–19	31	39	44
2019–20	49	43	44
2020–21	56	52	54
2021–22	52	43	48
2022–23	62	49	60
2023–24	50	52	58
2024–25	39	50	55

What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

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