Prostate biopsy waiting time at Albany Hospital

The median wait for prostate biopsy at this public hospital in the Spencer Park area of Western Australia was 35 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: 35 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 90 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 49 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 24 days in 2016–17 to 35 days in 2024–25 — up 46% — while the national median rose from 27 days to 33 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Bunbury Hospital, about 276 km away, at 27 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
Albany Hospital	35 days	0.0%	90 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.

Bunbury HospitalWA · about 276 km away27 days
Peel Health CampusWA · about 339 km away17 days
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial HospitalWA · about 364 km away57 days
Fiona Stanley HospitalWA · about 378 km away27 days
Fremantle Hospital and Health ServiceWA · about 383 km away43 days
St John of God Midland Public HospitalWA · about 388 km away11 days
Sir Charles Gairdner HospitalWA · about 389 km away24 days
Osborne Park HospitalWA · about 398 km away49 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 500 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Albany 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	Albany Hospital (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	24	19	27
2017–18	49	20	29
2018–19	22	19	29
2019–20	21	22	28
2020–21	30	23	29
2021–22	41	25	28
2022–23	53	27	30
2023–24	51	26	29
2024–25	35	29	33

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

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