Prostate biopsy waiting time at Lyell McEwin 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: 30 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 35 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 39 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
Lyell McEwin Hospital	30 days	not published	35 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)	42 days	1.9%	1286 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.

Modbury HospitalSA · about 10 km away30 days
The Queen Elizabeth HospitalSA · about 19 km away64 days
Royal Adelaide HospitalSA · about 21 km away75 days
Flinders Medical CentreSA · about 32 km away24 days
Noarlunga HospitalSA · about 46 km away25 days
South Coast District HospitalSA · about 91 km away25 days
Clare HospitalSA · about 102 km away15 days
Northern Yorke Peninsula Health Service (Wallaroo)SA · about 131 km away30 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	Lyell McEwin Hospital (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not published	37	27
2017–18	77	40	29
2018–19	not published	29	29
2019–20	57	37	28
2020–21	93	64	29
2021–22	98	44	28
2022–23	161	41	30
2023–24	232	39	29
2024–25	30	42	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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