Prostate biopsy waiting time at Northeast Health Wangaratta

The median wait for prostate biopsy at this public hospital in the Wangaratta area of Victoria was 14 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: 14 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 80 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 2 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 19 days in 2017–18 to 14 days in 2024–25 — down 26% — while the national median rose from 29 days to 33 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period. Here, 0.0% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 0.4%.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Prostate biopsy" and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Prostate biopsy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Northeast Health Wangaratta	14 days	0.0%	80 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	38 days	0.1%	3466 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.

Albury Wodonga Health [Wodonga Campus]VIC · about 56 km away20 days
Goulburn Valley Health [Shepparton]VIC · about 81 km away23 days
Wagga Wagga HospitalNSW · about 167 km away18 days
Yarra Ranges HealthVIC · about 178 km away28 days
The Northern Hospital [Epping]VIC · about 185 km away39 days
The Bendigo HospitalVIC · about 187 km away83 days
Maroondah Hospital [East Ringwood]VIC · about 187 km away27 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 192 km away22 days

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

Some of these hospitals are in another state — a public hospital referral can cross the border, so ask your GP what that would mean for you.

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	Northeast Health Wangaratta (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not published	24	27
2017–18	19	27	29
2018–19	9	27	29
2019–20	11	25	28
2020–21	14	26	29
2021–22	14	26	28
2022–23	15	27	30
2023–24	21	26	29
2024–25	14	27	33

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

All surgery at Northeast Health Wangaratta · Prostate biopsy across Australia · Prostate biopsy in Victoria