Prostate surgery waiting time at Armidale Hospital

The median wait for prostate surgery — published by the source as "Prostatectomy (transurethral or open)" — at this public hospital in the Armidale area of New South Wales was 93 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: 93 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 44 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 85 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 110 days in 2017–18 to 93 days in 2024–25 — down 15% — while the national median rose from 46 days to 55 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Tamworth Hospital, about 94 km away, at 86 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
Armidale Hospital	93 days	not published	44 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.

Tamworth HospitalNSW · about 94 km away86 days
Coffs Harbour HospitalNSW · about 140 km away77 days
Port Macquarie Base HospitalNSW · about 157 km away68 days
Maitland HospitalNSW · about 246 km away294 days
Lismore Base HospitalNSW · about 247 km away147 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	Armidale Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	not reported for this period	56	42
2012–13	not reported for this period	54	39
2013–14	not reported for this period	60	43
2014–15	not reported for this period	59	40
2015–16	not reported for this period	62	42
2016–17	not published	57	41
2017–18	110	63	46
2018–19	87	63	44
2019–20	258	59	44
2020–21	303	71	54
2021–22	102	59	48
2022–23	233	78	60
2023–24	140	75	58
2024–25	93	77	55

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

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