Prostate biopsy waiting time at Fremantle Hospital and Health Service

The median wait for prostate biopsy at this public hospital in the Fremantle area of Western Australia was 43 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: 43 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 162 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 6.8%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 61 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 34 days in 2022–23 to 43 days in 2024–25 — up 26% — while the national median rose from 30 days to 33 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Fiona Stanley Hospital, about 9 km away, at 27 days. Here, 6.8% 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
Fremantle Hospital and Health Service	43 days	6.8%	162 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.

Fiona Stanley HospitalWA · about 9 km away27 days
Sir Charles Gairdner HospitalWA · about 12 km away24 days
Osborne Park HospitalWA · about 20 km away49 days
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial HospitalWA · about 27 km away57 days
St John of God Midland Public HospitalWA · about 30 km away11 days
Joondalup Health Campus (Public)WA · about 36 km away22 days
Peel Health CampusWA · about 53 km away17 days
Bunbury HospitalWA · about 146 km away27 days

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

How the wait has changed

Fremantle Hospital and Health Service
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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	Fremantle Hospital and Health Service (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not reported for this period	19	27
2017–18	not reported for this period	20	29
2018–19	not published	19	29
2019–20	not reported for this period	22	28
2020–21	not reported for this period	23	29
2021–22	not reported for this period	25	28
2022–23	34	27	30
2023–24	34	26	29
2024–25	43	29	33

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

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