Surgery Waits

Prostate surgery waiting time at Port Macquarie Base Hospital

The median wait for prostate surgery — published by the source as "Prostatectomy (transurethral or open)" — at this public hospital in the Port Macquarie area of New South Wales was 68 days in 2024–25.

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

These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.

Median wait
68 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
117 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
6.8%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 55 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 66 days in 2011–12 to 68 days in 2024–25 — up 3% — while the national median rose from 42 days to 55 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period. Here, 6.8% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 4.0%.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Prostatectomy (transurethral or open)" and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.

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
Port Macquarie Base Hospital68 days6.8%117 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)77 days5.0%2707 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)55 days4.0%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.

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

How the wait has changed

Median wait for prostatectomy (transurethral or open) by financial year at Port Macquarie Base Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays038751131502011–122014–152017–182020–212023–242024–25Port Macquarie Base Hospital 68NSW 77Australia 55
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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 periodPort Macquarie Base Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2011–12665642
2012–13385439
2013–14486043
2014–15705940
2015–16626242
2016–17675741
2017–18686346
2018–19706344
2019–20775944
2020–21747154
2021–22625948
2022–231437860
2023–24757558
2024–25687755

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

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