Prostate biopsy waiting times

Public hospital waiting times for Prostate biopsy, nationally and by state.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026

Across Australia, the median wait for Prostate biopsy in public hospitals was 33 days in 2024–25, from 11402 surgeries. 0.4% of people waited more than 365 days. 90 public hospitals published a median wait for it.

State by state

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

Prostate biopsy in public hospitals by state and territory, 2024–25. States with the same median share a rank. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Rank	State or territory	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
1	Victoria	27 days	0.1%	2876 surgeries
2	Western Australia	29 days	0.8%	1578 surgeries
3	Queensland	32 days	0.1%	1642 surgeries
4	New South Wales	38 days	0.1%	3466 surgeries
5	South Australia	42 days	1.9%	1286 surgeries
6	Northern Territory	50 days	0.8%	120 surgeries
6	Tasmania	50 days	0.2%	434 surgeries

How the wait has changed

Australia
VIC
WA
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Median wait in days for Prostate biopsy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Australia (days)	VIC (days)	WA (days)	QLD (days)
2016–17	27	24	19	21
2017–18	29	27	20	25
2018–19	29	27	19	29
2019–20	28	25	22	27
2020–21	29	26	23	28
2021–22	28	26	25	27
2022–23	30	27	27	29
2023–24	29	26	26	29
2024–25	33	27	29	32

What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

The source calls this collection “elective surgery”. This site calls it planned surgery, because the surgery is planned in advance rather than optional — the methodology explains the wording.