Surgery Waits

Prostate biopsy waiting time at Griffith Base Hospital

The median wait for prostate biopsy at this public hospital in the Griffith 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
43 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 24 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here is unchanged from 2016–17 (26 days) — while the national median rose from 27 days to 33 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Wagga Wagga Hospital, about 152 km away, at 18 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
Griffith Base Hospital26 daysnot published43 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)38 days0.1%3466 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 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 Griffith Base Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays0102030402016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Griffith Base Hospital 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 periodGriffith Base Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–17263227
2017–18173329
2018–19213029
2019–20142828
2020–21232929
2021–22242828
2022–23223430
2023–24263429
2024–25263833

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

All surgery at Griffith Base Hospital · Prostate biopsy across Australia · Prostate biopsy in New South Wales