Surgery Waits

Prostate biopsy waiting time at Orange Health Service

The median wait for prostate biopsy at this public hospital in the Spring Creek area of New South Wales was 29 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
29 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
133 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 37 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 3 days in 2016–17 to 29 days in 2024–25 — up 867% — while the national median rose from 27 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%.

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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
Orange Health Service29 days0.0%133 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)38 days0.1%3466 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 Orange Health Service, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays0102030402016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Orange Health Service 29NSW 38Australia 33
  • Orange Health Service
  • NSW
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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 periodOrange Health Service (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–1733227
2017–1873329
2018–19123029
2019–20122828
2020–21152929
2021–22152828
2022–23283430
2023–24233429
2024–25293833

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

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