Prostate surgery waiting time at Casey Hospital

The median wait for prostate surgery — published by the source as "Prostatectomy (transurethral or open)" — at this public hospital in the Berwick area of Victoria was 24 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: 24 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 169 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 2.4%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 8 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 28 days in 2011–12 to 24 days in 2024–25 — down 14% — while the national median rose from 42 days to 55 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin], about 28 km away, at 23 days. Here, 2.4% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 4.0%.

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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
Casey Hospital	24 days	2.4%	169 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.

Frankston Public Surgical CentreVIC · about 22 km away34 days
Frankston HospitalVIC · about 22 km away24 days
Maroondah Hospital [East Ringwood]VIC · about 28 km away51 days
Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin]VIC · about 28 km away23 days
Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 33 km away31 days
The AlfredVIC · about 39 km away21 days
Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]VIC · about 41 km away28 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 42 km away64 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	Casey Hospital (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	28	33	42
2012–13	26	27	39
2013–14	62	34	43
2014–15	25	29	40
2015–16	23	32	42
2016–17	33	30	41
2017–18	43	33	46
2018–19	52	34	44
2019–20	69	30	44
2020–21	43	36	54
2021–22	24	28	48
2022–23	82	50	60
2023–24	34	48	58
2024–25	24	42	55

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

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