Prostate biopsy waiting time at Shoalhaven Hospital

The median wait for prostate biopsy at this public hospital in the West Nowra area of New South Wales was 29 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: 29 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 144 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 37 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 23 days in 2018–19 to 29 days in 2024–25 — up 26% — while the national median rose from 29 days to 33 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Sutherland Hospital, about 104 km away, at 27 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
Shoalhaven Hospital	29 days	0.0%	144 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.

Wollongong HospitalNSW · about 56 km away46 days
Campbelltown HospitalNSW · about 90 km away85 days
Sutherland HospitalNSW · about 104 km away27 days
Liverpool HospitalNSW · about 110 km away115 days
Bankstown Lidcombe HospitalNSW · about 111 km away64 days
St George Hospital NSWNSW · about 112 km away26 days
Canterbury HospitalNSW · about 115 km away64 days
Prince of Wales HospitalNSW · about 121 km away33 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	Shoalhaven Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not reported for this period	32	27
2017–18	not reported for this period	33	29
2018–19	23	30	29
2019–20	24	28	28
2020–21	28	29	29
2021–22	29	28	28
2022–23	22	34	30
2023–24	29	34	29
2024–25	29	38	33

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

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