Prostate biopsy waiting time at Palmerston Regional 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: 78 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 23 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 80 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
Palmerston Regional Hospital	78 days	not published	23 surgeries
Northern Territory (all public hospitals)	50 days	0.8%	120 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 Darwin HospitalNT · about 19 km away42 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 1000 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Palmerston Regional Hospital
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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	Palmerston Regional Hospital (days)	NT (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not reported for this period	not published	27
2017–18	not reported for this period	not published	29
2018–19	not reported for this period	not published	29
2019–20	37	not published	28
2020–21	89	not published	29
2021–22	66	not published	28
2022–23	30	not published	30
2023–24	not reported for this period	not published	29
2024–25	78	50	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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