Surgery Waits

Circumcision waiting time at Gladstone Hospital

The median wait for circumcision at this public hospital in the West Gladstone area of Queensland was 62 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
62 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 30 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 28 days in 2016–17 to 62 days in 2024–25 — up 121% — while the national median rose from 60 days to 80 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Maryborough Hospital, about 236 km away, at 41 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
Gladstone Hospital62 daysnot published12 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 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 Gladstone Hospital, compared with Queensland and Australiadays0501001502002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Gladstone Hospital 62QLD 81Australia 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 periodGladstone Hospital (days)QLD (days)Australia (days)
2016–17286560
2017–18577657
2018–19566860
2019–201575963
2020–21not published6985
2021–22not published7184
2022–23not published8495
2023–24647078
2024–25628180

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

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