Prostate biopsy waiting time at Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital]

The median wait for prostate biopsy at this public hospital in the Ballarat Central area of Victoria was 84 days in 2024–25.

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

These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.

Median wait: 84 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 148 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 0.0%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 83 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 30 days in 2016–17 to 84 days in 2024–25 — up 180% — while the national median rose from 27 days to 33 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is University Hospital Geelong, about 80 km away, at 22 days. Here, 0.0% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 0.4%.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Prostate biopsy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital]	84 days	0.0%	148 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	27 days	0.1%	2876 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.

University Hospital GeelongVIC · about 80 km away22 days
Williamstown HospitalVIC · about 98 km away17 days
The Bendigo HospitalVIC · about 98 km away83 days
Peter MacCallum Cancer CentreVIC · about 101 km away17 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 101 km away26 days
The Northern Hospital [Epping]VIC · about 103 km away39 days
The AlfredVIC · about 105 km away20 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 108 km away22 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	Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital] (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	30	24	27
2017–18	38	27	29
2018–19	33	27	29
2019–20	36	25	28
2020–21	42	26	29
2021–22	28	26	28
2022–23	46	27	30
2023–24	133	26	29
2024–25	84	27	33

Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.

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