Surgery Waits

Circumcision waiting time at Katherine Hospital

The median wait for circumcision at this public hospital in the Katherine area of Northern Territory was 51 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
51 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
22 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 25 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 282 days in 2016–17 to 51 days in 2024–25 — down 82% — while the national median rose from 60 days to 80 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.

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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
Katherine Hospital51 daysnot published22 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

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 1000 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for circumcision by financial year at Katherine Hospital, compared with Northern Territory and Australiadays0751502253002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Katherine Hospital 51NT 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 periodKatherine Hospital (days)NT (days)Australia (days)
2016–172828960
2017–182745957
2018–19568360
2019–201239163
2020–213414985
2021–2297not published84
2022–23not reported for this periodnot published95
2023–24114not published78
2024–2551not published80

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

All surgery at Katherine Hospital · Circumcision across Australia · Circumcision in Northern Territory