Surgery Waits

Prostate biopsy waiting time at Naracoorte Health Service

The median wait for prostate biopsy at this public hospital in the Naracoorte area of South Australia was 30 days in 2024–25.

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

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

Median wait
30 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
22 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
not published2024–25 · released 28 May 2026 — Reported data did not meet the criteria to calculate this indicator.

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 39 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 24 days in 2017–18 to 30 days in 2024–25 — up 25% — while the national median rose from 29 days to 33 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is South Coast District Hospital, about 247 km away, at 25 days.

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
Naracoorte Health Service30 daysnot published22 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)42 days1.9%1286 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)27 days0.1%2876 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)33 days0.4%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.

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 500 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

Some of these hospitals are in another state — a public hospital referral can cross the border, so ask your GP what that would mean for you.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for prostate biopsy by financial year at Naracoorte Health Service, compared with South Australia and Australiadays0193856752016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Naracoorte Health Service 30SA 42Australia 33
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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 periodNaracoorte Health Service (days)SA (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not published3727
2017–18244029
2018–19512929
2019–20623728
2020–21not published6429
2021–22not reported for this period4428
2022–23not published4130
2023–24353929
2024–25304233

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

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