Surgery Waits

Circumcision waiting time at Bathurst Base Hospital

The median wait for circumcision at this public hospital in the Bathurst area of New South Wales was 223 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
223 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
17 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 90 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 292 days in 2017–18 to 223 days in 2024–25 — down 24% — while the national median rose from 57 days to 80 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Orange Health Service, about 46 km away, at 123 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
Bathurst Base Hospital223 daysnot published17 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 Bathurst Base Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays0751502253002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Bathurst Base Hospital 223NSW 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 periodBathurst Base Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not published7560
2017–182927057
2018–191687360
2019–20847863
2020–21not published10085
2021–222928884
2022–23not published9795
2023–2419510478
2024–252239480

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

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