Circumcision waiting time at Maitland Hospital
Half of patients at Maitland Hospital waited 288 days or less for circumcision in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). This public hospital is in the Telarah area of New South Wales.
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
- 288 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 18 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 98 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 288 days in 2024–25 — up 476% — while the national median rose from 60 days to 80 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is John Hunter Hospital, about 26 km away, at 257 days.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maitland Hospital | 288 days | not published | 18 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.
John Hunter Hospital, NSW · about 26 km away: 257 days
Wyong Hospital, NSW · about 60 km away: 99 days
Gosford Hospital, NSW · about 79 km away: 148 days
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital, NSW · about 116 km away: 112 days
Northern Beaches Hospital, NSW · about 117 km away: 45 days
Hawkesbury Hospital, NSW · about 119 km away: 74 days
Manning Hospital, NSW · about 125 km away: 243 days
Royal North Shore Hospital, NSW · about 126 km away: 78 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Maitland Hospital
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Maitland Hospital (days) | NSW (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 50 | 75 | 60 |
| 2017–18 | 65 | 70 | 57 |
| 2018–19 | 33 | 73 | 60 |
| 2019–20 | 54 | 78 | 63 |
| 2020–21 | 289 | 100 | 85 |
| 2021–22 | 71 | 88 | 84 |
| 2022–23 | 133 | 97 | 95 |
| 2023–24 | 84 | 104 | 78 |
| 2024–25 | 288 | 94 | 80 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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