Circumcision waiting time at Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital]

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Circumcision at this public hospital, with the nearest alternatives that published a figure.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026

Median wait: 44 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 23 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 19 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Circumcision, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital]	44 days	not published	23 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	55 days	3.2%	816 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.

University Hospital GeelongVIC · about 80 km away98 days
Werribee Mercy HospitalVIC · about 83 km away104 days
Western Hospital [Footscray]VIC · about 95 km away119 days
Williamstown HospitalVIC · about 98 km away55 days
Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville]VIC · about 101 km away132 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 101 km away70 days
The Northern Hospital [Epping]VIC · about 103 km away39 days
St Vincent's On the ParkVIC · about 103 km away26 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital]
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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 period	Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital] (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	84	47	60
2017–18	142	42	57
2018–19	111	39	60
2019–20	63	45	63
2020–21	142	84	85
2021–22	119	78	84
2022–23	103	112	95
2023–24	177	63	78
2024–25	44	55	80

What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

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