Tonsillectomy waiting time at Blackburn Public Surgical Centre
Half of patients at Blackburn Public Surgical Centre waited 133 days or less for tonsillectomy in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Tonsillectomy (with or without adenoidectomy)". This public hospital is in the Blackburn South area of Victoria.
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
- 133 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 26 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 114 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 40 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Monash Medical Centre [Clayton], about 10 km away, at 64 days.
Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Tonsillectomy (with or without adenoidectomy)" 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
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blackburn Public Surgical Centre | 133 days | not published | 26 surgeries |
| Victoria (all public hospitals) | 116 days | 15.1% | 4811 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 182 days | 17.0% | 16182 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 182 days marks the national median.
Box Hill Hospital, VIC · about 4 km away: 230 days
Monash Medical Centre [Clayton], VIC · about 10 km away: 64 days
Austin Hospital [Heidelberg], VIC · about 12 km away: 313 days
Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin], VIC · about 13 km away: 52 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West], VIC · about 13 km away: 338 days
The Alfred, VIC · about 15 km away: 67 days
Angliss Hospital, VIC · about 16 km away: 194 days
St Vincent's On the Park, VIC · about 16 km away: 102 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Blackburn Public Surgical Centre
- VIC
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Blackburn Public Surgical Centre (days) | VIC (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011–12 | not reported for this period | 98 | 98 |
| 2012–13 | not reported for this period | 105 | 98 |
| 2013–14 | not reported for this period | 104 | 99 |
| 2014–15 | not reported for this period | 106 | 124 |
| 2015–16 | not reported for this period | 87 | 120 |
| 2016–17 | not reported for this period | 69 | 97 |
| 2017–18 | not reported for this period | 81 | 121 |
| 2018–19 | not reported for this period | 77 | 125 |
| 2019–20 | not reported for this period | 80 | 130 |
| 2020–21 | not reported for this period | 167 | 253 |
| 2021–22 | not reported for this period | 110 | 168 |
| 2022–23 | not reported for this period | 134 | 174 |
| 2023–24 | not reported for this period | 159 | 185 |
| 2024–25 | 133 | 116 | 182 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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