Surgery Waits

Prostate biopsy waiting time at Liverpool Hospital

The median wait for prostate biopsy at this public hospital in the Warwick Farm area of New South Wales was 115 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
115 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
173 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 88 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 34 days in 2016–17 to 115 days in 2024–25 — up 238% — while the national median rose from 27 days to 33 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital, about 8 km away, at 64 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
Liverpool Hospital115 days0.0%173 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 Liverpool Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays038751131502016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Liverpool Hospital 115NSW 38Australia 33
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Median wait in days for Prostate biopsy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodLiverpool Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–17343227
2017–18483329
2018–19603029
2019–20392828
2020–21532929
2021–22842828
2022–231283430
2023–24853429
2024–251153833

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

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