Circumcision waiting time at Sydney Children's Hospital

The median wait for circumcision at this public hospital in the Randwick area of New South Wales was 70 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: 70 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 45 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 35 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 80 days in 2016–17 to 70 days in 2024–25 — down 13% — while the national median rose from 60 days to 80 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, about 6 km away, at 10 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
Sydney Children's Hospital	70 days	not published	45 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.

Prince of Wales HospitalNSW · about 0 km away88 days
Royal Prince Alfred HospitalNSW · about 6 km away10 days
St George Hospital NSWNSW · about 11 km away109 days
Royal North Shore HospitalNSW · about 12 km away78 days
Canterbury HospitalNSW · about 13 km away82 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 16 km away71 days
Sutherland HospitalNSW · about 18 km away65 days
Northern Beaches HospitalNSW · about 19 km away45 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	Sydney Children's Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	80	75	60
2017–18	30	70	57
2018–19	43	73	60
2019–20	45	78	63
2020–21	68	100	85
2021–22	17	88	84
2022–23	81	97	95
2023–24	83	104	78
2024–25	70	94	80

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

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