Prostate biopsy waiting time at Canterbury Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Prostate biopsy 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: 64 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 33 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 90 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 72 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 Prostate biopsy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Canterbury Hospital	64 days	not published	33 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	38 days	0.1%	3466 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	33 days	0.4%	11402 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 33 days marks the national median.

St George Hospital NSWNSW · about 6 km away26 days
Bankstown Lidcombe HospitalNSW · about 7 km away64 days
Royal Prince Alfred HospitalNSW · about 9 km away21 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 9 km away28 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst]NSW · about 12 km away77 days
Prince of Wales HospitalNSW · about 13 km away33 days
Sutherland HospitalNSW · about 13 km away27 days
Royal North Shore HospitalNSW · about 14 km away31 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 Prostate biopsy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Canterbury Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not reported for this period	32	27
2017–18	not reported for this period	33	29
2018–19	not reported for this period	30	29
2019–20	not reported for this period	28	28
2020–21	not reported for this period	29	29
2021–22	not published	28	28
2022–23	not published	34	30
2023–24	not reported for this period	34	29
2024–25	64	38	33

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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