Prostate biopsy waiting times in Tasmania

Public hospitals in Tasmania ranked by their median wait for prostate biopsy.

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

4 public hospitals in Tasmania reported prostate biopsy in 2024–25. The state median was 50 days; the national median was 33 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.

1 hospital has no published median wait for this surgery in this period. They are listed last, marked "not published", and are never ranked.

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 33 days marks the national median.

Mersey Community Hospital36 days
Launceston General Hospital42 days
Royal Hobart Hospital78 days
North West Regional Hospitalnot published

Prostate biopsy in Tasmania public hospitals, 2024–25. Hospitals with the same median share a rank and the next rank is skipped. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Rank	Hospital	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
1	Mersey Community Hospital	36 days	not published	38 surgeries
2	Launceston General Hospital	42 days	0.0%	253 surgeries
3	Royal Hobart Hospital	78 days	0.7%	141 surgeries
unranked	North West Regional Hospital	not published	not published	not published

What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

Waiting times differ across state borders, and a referral can cross one — read what that means. Compare with every other state, or see every surgery reported in Tasmania.