Prostate biopsy waiting time at Sutherland Hospital

The median wait for prostate biopsy at this public hospital in the Caringbah area of New South Wales was 27 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: 27 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 44 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 28 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 28 days in 2016–17 to 27 days in 2024–25 — down 4% — while the national median rose from 27 days to 33 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is St George Hospital NSW, about 8 km away, at 26 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
Sutherland Hospital	27 days	not published	44 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 George Hospital NSWNSW · about 8 km away26 days
Canterbury HospitalNSW · about 13 km away64 days
Bankstown Lidcombe HospitalNSW · about 14 km away64 days
Prince of Wales HospitalNSW · about 17 km away33 days
Royal Prince Alfred HospitalNSW · about 18 km away21 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst]NSW · about 20 km away77 days
Liverpool HospitalNSW · about 21 km away115 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 22 km away28 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	Sutherland Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	28	32	27
2017–18	25	33	29
2018–19	30	30	29
2019–20	26	28	28
2020–21	32	29	29
2021–22	20	28	28
2022–23	26	34	30
2023–24	27	34	29
2024–25	27	38	33

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

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