Tonsillectomy waiting time at Fremantle Hospital and Health Service

The median wait for tonsillectomy — published by the source as "Tonsillectomy (with or without adenoidectomy)" — at this public hospital in the Fremantle area of Western Australia was 393 days in 2024–25.

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: 393 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 97 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 68.0%2024–25 · released 28 May 2026

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 111 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 46 days in 2011–12 to 393 days in 2024–25 — up 754% — while the national median rose from 98 days to 182 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Fiona Stanley Hospital, about 9 km away, at 197 days. Here, 68.0% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 17.0%.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Tonsillectomy (with or without adenoidectomy), 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Fremantle Hospital and Health Service	393 days	68.0%	97 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)	183 days	33.3%	1581 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.

Fiona Stanley HospitalWA · about 9 km away197 days
Perth Children's HospitalWA · about 12 km away134 days
Sir Charles Gairdner HospitalWA · about 12 km away46 days
Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street CampusWA · about 16 km away183 days
Bentley Health ServiceWA · about 18 km away228 days
Osborne Park HospitalWA · about 20 km away105 days
Rockingham General HospitalWA · about 26 km away120 days
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial HospitalWA · about 27 km away328 days

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

How the wait has changed

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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Tonsillectomy (with or without adenoidectomy), by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Fremantle Hospital and Health Service (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	46	78	98
2012–13	61	88	98
2013–14	84	98	99
2014–15	48	118	124
2015–16	not reported for this period	111	120
2016–17	343	129	97
2017–18	76	147	121
2018–19	159	211	125
2019–20	377	194	130
2020–21	287	295	253
2021–22	447	229	168
2022–23	323	287	174
2023–24	193	160	185
2024–25	393	183	182

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

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