Surgery Waits

Prostate biopsy waiting time at St George Hospital NSW

The median wait for prostate biopsy at this public hospital in the Kogarah area of New South Wales was 26 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
26 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
129 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 24 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 47 days in 2016–17 to 26 days in 2024–25 — down 45% — while the national median rose from 27 days to 33 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, about 10 km away, at 21 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
St George Hospital NSW26 days0.0%129 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)38 days0.1%3466 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 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for prostate biopsy by financial year at St George Hospital NSW, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays0132538502016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25St George Hospital NSW 26NSW 38Australia 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 periodSt George Hospital NSW (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–17473227
2017–18493329
2018–19343029
2019–20272828
2020–21292929
2021–22242828
2022–23263430
2023–24233429
2024–25263833

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

All surgery at St George Hospital NSW · Prostate biopsy across Australia · Prostate biopsy in New South Wales