Prostate biopsy waiting time at Casey Hospital

The median wait for prostate biopsy at this public hospital in the Berwick area of Victoria was 125 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: 125 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 261 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 89 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 18 days in 2016–17 to 125 days in 2024–25 — up 594% — while the national median rose from 27 days to 33 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Frankston Public Surgical Centre, about 22 km away, at 35 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
Casey Hospital	125 days	0.0%	261 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	27 days	0.1%	2876 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.

Frankston Public Surgical CentreVIC · about 22 km away35 days
Frankston HospitalVIC · about 22 km away21 days
Maroondah Hospital [East Ringwood]VIC · about 28 km away27 days
Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin]VIC · about 28 km away130 days
Yarra Ranges HealthVIC · about 32 km away28 days
The AlfredVIC · about 39 km away20 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 42 km away22 days
Peter MacCallum Cancer CentreVIC · about 44 km away17 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	Casey Hospital (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	18	24	27
2017–18	23	27	29
2018–19	113	27	29
2019–20	73	25	28
2020–21	93	26	29
2021–22	127	26	28
2022–23	75	27	30
2023–24	81	26	29
2024–25	125	27	33

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

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