Prostate biopsy waiting time at Belmont Hospital

The median wait for prostate biopsy at this public hospital in the Valentine area of New South Wales was 65 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: 65 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 115 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 75 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 29 days in 2016–17 to 65 days in 2024–25 — up 124% — while the national median rose from 27 days to 33 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Maitland Hospital, about 34 km away, at 49 days. Here, 0.0% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 0.4%.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Prostate biopsy" and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Prostate biopsy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Belmont Hospital	65 days	0.0%	115 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.

Maitland HospitalNSW · about 34 km away49 days
Cessnock HospitalNSW · about 36 km away65 days
Gosford HospitalNSW · about 52 km away23 days
Northern Beaches HospitalNSW · about 89 km away47 days
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai HospitalNSW · about 90 km away62 days
Royal North Shore HospitalNSW · about 98 km away31 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst]NSW · about 103 km away77 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 104 km away28 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	Belmont Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	29	32	27
2017–18	25	33	29
2018–19	24	30	29
2019–20	28	28	28
2020–21	54	29	29
2021–22	42	28	28
2022–23	39	34	30
2023–24	34	34	29
2024–25	65	38	33

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

All surgery at Belmont Hospital · Prostate biopsy across Australia · Prostate biopsy in New South Wales