Surgery Waits

Prostate biopsy waiting time at Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital

The median wait for prostate biopsy at this public hospital in the Waitara area of New South Wales was 62 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
62 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
57 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 71 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 44 days in 2016–17 to 62 days in 2024–25 — up 41% — while the national median rose from 27 days to 33 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Northern Beaches Hospital, about 12 km away, at 47 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
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital62 days0.0%57 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 Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays0193856752016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital 62NSW 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 periodHornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–17443227
2017–18233329
2018–19333029
2019–20222828
2020–21292929
2021–22212828
2022–23323430
2023–24473429
2024–25623833

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

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