Surgery Waits

Circumcision waiting time at Westmead Hospital

The median wait for circumcision at this public hospital in the Westmead area of New South Wales was 384 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
384 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
12 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 102 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 211 days in 2016–17 to 384 days in 2024–25 — up 82% — while the national median rose from 60 days to 80 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is The Children's Hospital at Westmead, about 0 km away, at 64 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
Westmead Hospital384 daysnot published12 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)94 days11.4%1036 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 Westmead Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays01002003004002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Westmead Hospital 384NSW 94Australia 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 periodWestmead Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–172117560
2017–18917057
2018–19not published7360
2019–20not published7863
2020–21not published10085
2021–22not published8884
2022–232839795
2023–2415810478
2024–253849480

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

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