Prostate biopsy waiting time at Frankston Hospital

The median wait for prostate biopsy at this public hospital in the Frankston area of Victoria was 21 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: 21 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 95 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 13 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 58 days in 2018–19 to 21 days in 2024–25 — down 64% — while the national median rose from 29 days to 33 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is The Alfred, about 36 km away, at 20 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
Frankston Hospital	21 days	0.0%	95 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	27 days	0.1%	2876 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.

Frankston Public Surgical CentreVIC · about 1 km away35 days
Casey HospitalVIC · about 22 km away125 days
Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin]VIC · about 26 km away130 days
The AlfredVIC · about 36 km away20 days
Williamstown HospitalVIC · about 38 km away17 days
Maroondah Hospital [East Ringwood]VIC · about 40 km away27 days
Peter MacCallum Cancer CentreVIC · about 42 km away17 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 42 km away26 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	Frankston Hospital (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not published	24	27
2017–18	not published	27	29
2018–19	58	27	29
2019–20	88	25	28
2020–21	19	26	29
2021–22	40	26	28
2022–23	34	27	30
2023–24	20	26	29
2024–25	21	27	33

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

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