Surgery Waits

Circumcision waiting time at Armidale Hospital

The median wait for circumcision at this public hospital in the Armidale area of New South Wales was 108 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
108 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
13 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 102 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 63 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 157 days in 2018–19 to 108 days in 2024–25 — down 31% — while the national median rose from 60 days to 80 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Grafton Base Hospital, about 155 km away, at 28 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Circumcision, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Armidale Hospital108 daysnot published13 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)94 days11.4%1036 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)80 days9.1%3291 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 80 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 circumcision by financial year at Armidale Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays0501001502002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Armidale Hospital 108NSW 94Australia 80
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Circumcision, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodArmidale Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not published7560
2017–18not published7057
2018–191577360
2019–201727863
2020–2111010085
2021–22688884
2022–23not published9795
2023–24not published10478
2024–251089480

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

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