Surgery Waits

Circumcision waiting time at Flinders Medical Centre

The median wait for circumcision at this public hospital in the Bedford Park area of South Australia was 43 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
43 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
27 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 18 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 44 days in 2016–17 to 43 days in 2024–25 — down 2% — while the national median rose from 60 days to 80 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Mount Barker District Soldiers' Memorial Hospital, about 28 km away, at 18 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
Flinders Medical Centre43 daysnot published27 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)97 days18.7%252 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 Flinders Medical Centre, compared with South Australia and Australiadays02550751002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Flinders Medical Centre 43SA 97Australia 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 periodFlinders Medical Centre (days)SA (days)Australia (days)
2016–17443860
2017–18645457
2018–19not published4860
2019–20395063
2020–21367485
2021–22348384
2022–23297795
2023–24395678
2024–25439780

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

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