Surgery Waits

Circumcision waiting time at Grafton Base Hospital

The median wait for circumcision at this public hospital in the Grafton area of New South Wales was 28 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
28 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
12 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 6 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here is unchanged from 2017–18 (28 days) — while the national median rose from 57 days to 80 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Circumcision" 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 Circumcision, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Grafton Base Hospital28 daysnot published12 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)94 days11.4%1036 surgeries
Queensland (all public hospitals)81 days7.9%595 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.

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

Median wait for circumcision by financial year at Grafton Base Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays03163941252016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Grafton Base Hospital 28NSW 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 periodGrafton Base Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not published7560
2017–18287057
2018–19497360
2019–20347863
2020–214710085
2021–22not published8884
2022–23not published9795
2023–248410478
2024–25289480

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

All surgery at Grafton Base Hospital · Circumcision across Australia · Circumcision in New South Wales