Prostate biopsy waiting time at Manning Hospital

The median wait for prostate biopsy at this public hospital in the Taree South area of New South Wales 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: 114 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 0.9%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 27 days in 2016–17 to 35 days in 2024–25 — up 30% — while the national median rose from 27 days to 33 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Gosford Hospital, about 198 km away, at 23 days. Here, 0.9% 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
Manning Hospital	35 days	0.9%	114 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	38 days	0.1%	3466 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.

Port Macquarie Base HospitalNSW · about 65 km away54 days
Maitland HospitalNSW · about 125 km away49 days
Belmont HospitalNSW · about 145 km away65 days
Cessnock HospitalNSW · about 146 km away65 days
Gosford HospitalNSW · about 198 km away23 days
Northern Beaches HospitalNSW · about 234 km away47 days
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai HospitalNSW · about 235 km away62 days
Royal North Shore HospitalNSW · about 243 km away31 days

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

How the wait has changed

Manning 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	Manning Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	27	32	27
2017–18	33	33	29
2018–19	28	30	29
2019–20	48	28	28
2020–21	62	29	29
2021–22	26	28	28
2022–23	37	34	30
2023–24	43	34	29
2024–25	35	38	33

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

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