Surgery Waits

Prostate biopsy waiting time at Latrobe Regional Hospital [Traralgon]

The median wait for prostate biopsy at this public hospital in the Traralgon area of Victoria was 91 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
91 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
32 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 85 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 20 days in 2016–17 to 91 days in 2024–25 — up 355% — while the national median rose from 27 days to 33 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is West Gippsland Healthcare Group [Warragul], about 48 km away, at 28 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
Latrobe Regional Hospital [Traralgon]91 daysnot published32 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 Latrobe Regional Hospital [Traralgon], compared with Victoria and Australiadays02550751002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Latrobe Regional Hospital [Traralgon] 91VIC 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 periodLatrobe Regional Hospital [Traralgon] (days)VIC (days)Australia (days)
2016–17202427
2017–18232729
2018–19152729
2019–20212528
2020–21not published2629
2021–22not published2628
2022–23272730
2023–24982629
2024–25912733

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

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