Prostate surgery waiting time at Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]

The median wait for prostate surgery — published by the source as "Prostatectomy (transurethral or open)" — at this public hospital in the Bellfield area of Victoria was 64 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: 64 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 160 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 0.6%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 53 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 38 days in 2023–24 to 64 days in 2024–25 — up 68% — while the national median fell from 58 days to 55 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Austin Hospital [Heidelberg], about 1 km away, at 28 days. Here, 0.6% 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
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]	64 days	0.6%	160 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.

Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]VIC · about 1 km away28 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 8 km away88 days
St Vincent's On the ParkVIC · about 9 km away27 days
Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 9 km away31 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 9 km away54 days
Peter MacCallum Cancer CentreVIC · about 9 km away82 days
The AlfredVIC · about 12 km away21 days
The Northern Hospital [Epping]VIC · about 12 km away37 days

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

How the wait has changed

Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]
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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	Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West] (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	not reported for this period	33	42
2012–13	not reported for this period	27	39
2013–14	not reported for this period	34	43
2014–15	not reported for this period	29	40
2015–16	not reported for this period	32	42
2016–17	not reported for this period	30	41
2017–18	not reported for this period	33	46
2018–19	not reported for this period	34	44
2019–20	not reported for this period	30	44
2020–21	not reported for this period	36	54
2021–22	not reported for this period	28	48
2022–23	not reported for this period	50	60
2023–24	38	48	58
2024–25	64	42	55

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

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