Surgery Waits

Circumcision waiting time at Alice Springs Hospital

The median wait for circumcision at this public hospital in the Alice Springs area of Northern Territory was 92 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
92 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
13 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 56 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 29 days in 2016–17 to 92 days in 2024–25 — up 217% — while the national median rose from 60 days to 80 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
Alice Springs Hospital92 daysnot published13 surgeries
Northern Territory (all public hospitals)not publishednot published96 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)80 days9.1%3291 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

No other public hospital within 1,000 km published a figure for this surgery in this period.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for circumcision by financial year at Alice Springs Hospital, compared with Northern Territory and Australiadays038751131502016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Alice Springs Hospital 92NT 149Australia 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 periodAlice Springs Hospital (days)NT (days)Australia (days)
2016–17298960
2017–18225957
2018–19358360
2019–20379163
2020–211414985
2021–22not publishednot published84
2022–2336not published95
2023–2428not published78
2024–2592not published80

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

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