Circumcision waiting time at Katherine 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: 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.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Circumcision, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Katherine Hospital	51 days	not published	22 surgeries
Northern Territory (all public hospitals)	not published	not published	96 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.

Palmerston Regional HospitalNT · about 258 km away90 days
Gove HospitalNT · about 548 km away369 days

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

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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	Katherine Hospital (days)	NT (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	282	89	60
2017–18	274	59	57
2018–19	56	83	60
2019–20	123	91	63
2020–21	34	149	85
2021–22	97	not published	84
2022–23	not reported for this period	not published	95
2023–24	114	not published	78
2024–25	51	not published	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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