Prostate biopsy waiting time at Royal North Shore Hospital

The median wait for prostate biopsy at this public hospital in the St Leonards area of New South Wales was 31 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: 31 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 88 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 43 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 68 days in 2016–17 to 31 days in 2024–25 — down 54% — while the national median rose from 27 days to 33 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, about 8 km away, at 21 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
Royal North Shore Hospital	31 days	0.0%	88 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	38 days	0.1%	3466 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.

St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst]NSW · about 7 km away77 days
Royal Prince Alfred HospitalNSW · about 8 km away21 days
Northern Beaches HospitalNSW · about 9 km away47 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 9 km away28 days
Prince of Wales HospitalNSW · about 12 km away33 days
Canterbury HospitalNSW · about 14 km away64 days
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai HospitalNSW · about 15 km away62 days
St George Hospital NSWNSW · about 17 km away26 days

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

How the wait has changed

Royal North Shore Hospital
NSW
Australia

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	Royal North Shore Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	68	32	27
2017–18	50	33	29
2018–19	21	30	29
2019–20	22	28	28
2020–21	45	29	29
2021–22	20	28	28
2022–23	75	34	30
2023–24	96	34	29
2024–25	31	38	33

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

All surgery at Royal North Shore Hospital · Prostate biopsy across Australia · Prostate biopsy in New South Wales