Surgery Waits

Prostate biopsy waiting time at Bass Coast Health

The median wait for prostate biopsy at this public hospital in the South Dudley area of Victoria was 19 days in 2024–25.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released

These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.

Median wait
19 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
27 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 9 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.

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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
Bass Coast Health19 daysnot published27 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)27 days0.1%2876 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)33 days0.4%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.

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

How the wait has changed

Median wait for prostate biopsy by financial year at Bass Coast Health, compared with Victoria and Australiadays0102030402016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Bass Coast Health 19VIC 27Australia 33
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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 periodBass Coast Health (days)VIC (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not reported for this period2427
2017–18not reported for this period2729
2018–19not reported for this period2729
2019–20not reported for this period2528
2020–21not reported for this period2629
2021–22not reported for this period2628
2022–23not reported for this period2730
2023–24not reported for this period2629
2024–25192733

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

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