Surgery Waits

Circumcision waiting time at Launceston General Hospital

The median wait for circumcision at this public hospital in the South Launceston area of Tasmania 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
27 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 risen from 22 days in 2016–17 to 51 days in 2024–25 — up 132% — while the national median rose from 60 days to 80 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Royal Hobart Hospital, about 160 km away, at 48 days.

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
Launceston General Hospital51 daysnot published27 surgeries
Tasmania (all public hospitals)not publishednot published84 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)55 days3.2%816 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 500 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

Some of these hospitals are in another state — a public hospital referral can cross the border, so ask your GP what that would mean for you.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for circumcision by financial year at Launceston General Hospital, compared with Tasmania and Australiadays038751131502016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Launceston General Hospital 51TAS 64Australia 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 periodLaunceston General Hospital (days)TAS (days)Australia (days)
2016–1722not published60
2017–18555057
2018–191205360
2019–20136not published63
2020–211226485
2021–2252not published84
2022–2380not published95
2023–2451not published78
2024–2551not published80

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

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