Surgery Waits

Prostate biopsy waiting time at Nambour General Hospital

The median wait for prostate biopsy at this public hospital in the Nambour area of Queensland was 27 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
27 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
341 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 28 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 21 days in 2016–17 to 27 days in 2024–25 — up 29% — while the national median rose from 27 days to 33 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Royal Brisbane & Women's Hospital, about 92 km away, at 26 days. Here, 0.0% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 0.4%.

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
Nambour General Hospital27 days0.0%341 surgeries
Queensland (all public hospitals)32 days0.1%1642 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 Nambour General Hospital, compared with Queensland and Australiadays0132538502016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Nambour General Hospital 27QLD 32Australia 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 periodNambour General Hospital (days)QLD (days)Australia (days)
2016–17212127
2017–18not published2529
2018–19not published2929
2019–20not published2728
2020–21not published2829
2021–22not reported for this period2728
2022–23462930
2023–24292929
2024–25273233

Queensland's quarterly figures for urology

These are not figures for prostate biopsy. Queensland reports by surgical specialty, not by procedure. A specialty covers many different operations, so a specialty figure is never a figure for any one of them.

Queensland Health publishes its own figures every three months. They count differently from the national figures above and are never combined with them. This quarter ends after the national reporting period, so it is the more recent of the two.

Covers July to September 2025, published by Queensland Health on 28 October 2025. Reported as Nambour.

Patients treated
265 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Treated within the recommended time
80.8%July to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Still waiting at the end of the quarter
148 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Waiting longer than recommended
1 patientJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025

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

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