Prostate biopsy waiting time at Northern Beaches 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: 47 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 49 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 64 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
Northern Beaches Hospital	47 days	not published	49 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.

Royal North Shore HospitalNSW · about 9 km away31 days
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai HospitalNSW · about 12 km away62 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst]NSW · about 14 km away77 days
Royal Prince Alfred HospitalNSW · about 16 km away21 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 16 km away28 days
Prince of Wales HospitalNSW · about 19 km away33 days
Canterbury HospitalNSW · about 23 km away64 days
Westmead HospitalNSW · about 24 km away58 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	Northern Beaches 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 published	30	29
2019–20	not published	28	28
2020–21	25	29	29
2021–22	30	28	28
2022–23	27	34	30
2023–24	35	34	29
2024–25	47	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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