Prostate biopsy waiting time at Osborne Park Hospital

The median wait for prostate biopsy at this public hospital in the Stirling area of Western Australia was 49 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: 49 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 225 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 0.4%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 65 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 98 days in 2016–17 to 49 days in 2024–25 — down 50% — while the national median rose from 27 days to 33 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, about 9 km away, at 24 days. Here, 0.4% 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
Osborne Park Hospital	49 days	0.4%	225 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)	29 days	0.8%	1578 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.

Sir Charles Gairdner HospitalWA · about 9 km away24 days
Joondalup Health Campus (Public)WA · about 17 km away22 days
St John of God Midland Public HospitalWA · about 19 km away11 days
Fremantle Hospital and Health ServiceWA · about 20 km away43 days
Fiona Stanley HospitalWA · about 21 km away27 days
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial HospitalWA · about 34 km away57 days
Peel Health CampusWA · about 72 km away17 days
Bunbury HospitalWA · about 165 km away27 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Osborne Park Hospital
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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	Osborne Park Hospital (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	98	19	27
2017–18	40	20	29
2018–19	not published	19	29
2019–20	not published	22	28
2020–21	26	23	29
2021–22	33	25	28
2022–23	37	27	30
2023–24	45	26	29
2024–25	49	29	33

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

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