Circumcision waiting time at Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital

The median wait for circumcision at this public hospital in the Waitara area of New South Wales was 112 days in 2024–25.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026

These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.

Median wait: 112 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 15 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 66 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 35 days in 2016–17 to 112 days in 2024–25 — up 220% — while the national median rose from 60 days to 80 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Northern Beaches Hospital, about 12 km away, at 45 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
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital	112 days	not published	15 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	94 days	11.4%	1036 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	80 days	9.1%	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.

Northern Beaches HospitalNSW · about 12 km away45 days
Royal North Shore HospitalNSW · about 15 km away78 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 15 km away71 days
The Children's Hospital at WestmeadNSW · about 16 km away64 days
Westmead HospitalNSW · about 16 km away384 days
Auburn HospitalNSW · about 19 km away33 days
Blacktown HospitalNSW · about 20 km away312 days
Royal Prince Alfred HospitalNSW · about 22 km away10 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

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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 period	Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	35	75	60
2017–18	41	70	57
2018–19	77	73	60
2019–20	41	78	63
2020–21	62	100	85
2021–22	45	88	84
2022–23	96	97	95
2023–24	74	104	78
2024–25	112	94	80

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

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