Surgery Waits

Circumcision waiting time at Geraldton Hospital

The median wait for circumcision at this public hospital in the Beachlands area of Western Australia was 39 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
39 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 12 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is St John of God Midland Public Hospital, about 371 km away, at 7 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
Geraldton Hospital39 daysnot published13 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)84 days8.7%412 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 500 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for circumcision by financial year at Geraldton Hospital, compared with Western Australia and Australiadays03163941252016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Geraldton Hospital 39WA 84Australia 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 periodGeraldton Hospital (days)WA (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not published6260
2017–18not published6657
2018–19not published7660
2019–20not published6963
2020–21not published8685
2021–22not published9884
2022–23not published12595
2023–24not published7578
2024–25398480

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

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