Circumcision waiting time at Royal Adelaide Hospital

The median wait for circumcision at this public hospital in the Adelaide area of South Australia was 281 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: 281 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 23 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 95 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 101 days in 2019–20 to 281 days in 2024–25 — up 178% — while the national median rose from 63 days to 80 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Women's and Children's Hospital, about 2 km away, at 106 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
Royal Adelaide Hospital	281 days	not published	23 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)	97 days	18.7%	252 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.

Women's and Children's HospitalSA · about 2 km away106 days
The Queen Elizabeth HospitalSA · about 6 km away215 days
Flinders Medical CentreSA · about 11 km away43 days
Modbury HospitalSA · about 13 km away194 days
Mount Barker District Soldiers' Memorial HospitalSA · about 31 km away18 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	Royal Adelaide Hospital (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not reported for this period	38	60
2017–18	not reported for this period	54	57
2018–19	not published	48	60
2019–20	101	50	63
2020–21	not published	74	85
2021–22	106	83	84
2022–23	236	77	95
2023–24	not published	56	78
2024–25	281	97	80

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

All surgery at Royal Adelaide Hospital · Circumcision across Australia · Circumcision in South Australia