Prostate biopsy waiting time at Flinders Medical Centre

The median wait for prostate biopsy at this public hospital in the Bedford Park area of South Australia was 24 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: 24 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 100 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 1.0%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 20 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 49 days in 2017–18 to 24 days in 2024–25 — down 51% — while the national median rose from 29 days to 33 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Clare Hospital, about 133 km away, at 15 days. Here, 1.0% 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
Flinders Medical Centre	24 days	1.0%	100 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.

Royal Adelaide HospitalSA · about 11 km away75 days
Noarlunga HospitalSA · about 15 km away25 days
The Queen Elizabeth HospitalSA · about 16 km away64 days
Modbury HospitalSA · about 24 km away30 days
Lyell McEwin HospitalSA · about 32 km away30 days
South Coast District HospitalSA · about 60 km away25 days
Clare HospitalSA · about 133 km away15 days
Northern Yorke Peninsula Health Service (Wallaroo)SA · about 149 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	Flinders Medical Centre (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not reported for this period	37	27
2017–18	49	40	29
2018–19	33	29	29
2019–20	22	37	28
2020–21	25	64	29
2021–22	29	44	28
2022–23	26	41	30
2023–24	26	39	29
2024–25	24	42	33

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

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