Prostate biopsy waiting time at Northern Yorke Peninsula Health Service (Wallaroo)

The median wait for prostate biopsy at this public hospital in the Wallaroo area of South Australia was 30 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: 30 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 21 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 39 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 11 days in 2020–21 to 30 days in 2024–25 — up 173% — while the national median rose from 29 days to 33 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Clare Hospital, about 91 km away, at 15 days.

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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
Northern Yorke Peninsula Health Service (Wallaroo)	30 days	not published	21 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)	42 days	1.9%	1286 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.

Clare HospitalSA · about 91 km away15 days
Lyell McEwin HospitalSA · about 131 km away30 days
The Queen Elizabeth HospitalSA · about 134 km away64 days
Modbury HospitalSA · about 140 km away30 days
Royal Adelaide HospitalSA · about 141 km away75 days
Flinders Medical CentreSA · about 149 km away24 days
Noarlunga HospitalSA · about 156 km away25 days
South Coast District HospitalSA · about 202 km away25 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	Northern Yorke Peninsula Health Service (Wallaroo) (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not published	37	27
2017–18	not published	40	29
2018–19	not published	29	29
2019–20	not published	37	28
2020–21	11	64	29
2021–22	25	44	28
2022–23	24	41	30
2023–24	22	39	29
2024–25	30	42	33

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

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