Prostatectomy (transurethral or open) waiting time at Westmead 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: 110 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 65 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 12.3%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 94 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
Westmead Hospital	110 days	12.3%	65 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.

Blacktown HospitalNSW · about 7 km away78 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 10 km away69 days
Liverpool HospitalNSW · about 14 km away90 days
Bankstown Lidcombe HospitalNSW · about 15 km away82 days
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai HospitalNSW · about 16 km away91 days
Canterbury HospitalNSW · about 16 km away84 days
Royal North Shore HospitalNSW · about 19 km away105 days
Royal Prince Alfred HospitalNSW · about 20 km away26 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	Westmead Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	52	56	42
2012–13	76	54	39
2013–14	79	60	43
2014–15	78	59	40
2015–16	65	62	42
2016–17	70	57	41
2017–18	76	63	46
2018–19	84	63	44
2019–20	74	59	44
2020–21	89	71	54
2021–22	81	59	48
2022–23	110	78	60
2023–24	113	75	58
2024–25	110	77	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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