Surgery Waits

Circumcision waiting time at Women's and Children's Hospital

The median wait for circumcision at this public hospital in the North Adelaide area of South Australia was 106 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
106 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
75 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
22.7%2024–25 · released 28 May 2026

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 62 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 50 days in 2016–17 to 106 days in 2024–25 — up 112% — while the national median rose from 60 days to 80 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Flinders Medical Centre, about 13 km away, at 43 days. Here, 22.7% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 9.1%.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Circumcision" and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Circumcision, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Women's and Children's Hospital106 days22.7%75 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)97 days18.7%252 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 Women's and Children's Hospital, compared with South Australia and Australiadays03163941252016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Women's and Children's Hospital 106SA 97Australia 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 periodWomen's and Children's Hospital (days)SA (days)Australia (days)
2016–17503860
2017–18535457
2018–19644860
2019–20765063
2020–21857485
2021–22968384
2022–23817795
2023–24735678
2024–251069780

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

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