Prostate biopsy waiting time at Royal Adelaide 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: 75 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 297 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 1.7%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 90 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 78 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
Royal Adelaide Hospital	75 days	1.7%	297 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.

The Queen Elizabeth HospitalSA · about 6 km away64 days
Flinders Medical CentreSA · about 11 km away24 days
Modbury HospitalSA · about 13 km away30 days
Lyell McEwin HospitalSA · about 21 km away30 days
Noarlunga HospitalSA · about 26 km away25 days
South Coast District HospitalSA · about 71 km away25 days
Clare HospitalSA · about 121 km away15 days
Northern Yorke Peninsula Health Service (Wallaroo)SA · about 141 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	Royal Adelaide Hospital (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	43	37	27
2017–18	72	40	29
2018–19	44	29	29
2019–20	39	37	28
2020–21	76	64	29
2021–22	36	44	28
2022–23	62	41	30
2023–24	66	39	29
2024–25	75	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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