Surgery Waits

Adenoidectomy waiting time at Gold Coast University Hospital

The median wait for adenoidectomy at this public hospital in the Parkwood area of Queensland was 80 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
80 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
50 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
0.0%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 70 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 15 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 77 days in 2016–17 to 80 days in 2024–25 — up 4% — while the national median rose from 84 days to 144 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Queensland Children's Hospital, about 63 km away, at 53 days. Here, 0.0% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 15.5%.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "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

Median wait, long waits and volume for Adenoidectomy, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Gold Coast University Hospital80 days0.0%50 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)274 days18.3%1412 surgeries
Queensland (all public hospitals)68 days1.7%769 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)144 days15.5%3784 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 144 days marks the national median.

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

Some of these hospitals are in another state — a public hospital referral can cross the border, so ask your GP what that would mean for you.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for adenoidectomy by financial year at Gold Coast University Hospital, compared with Queensland and Australiadays0631251882502016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Gold Coast University Hospital 80QLD 68Australia 144
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Adenoidectomy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodGold Coast University Hospital (days)QLD (days)Australia (days)
2016–17776084
2017–18847595
2018–19857497
2019–20806997
2020–218676207
2021–225570111
2022–236788128
2023–244369148
2024–258068144

Queensland's quarterly figures for ENT surgery

These are not figures for adenoidectomy. Queensland reports by surgical specialty, not by procedure. A specialty covers many different operations, so a specialty figure is never a figure for any one of them.

Queensland Health publishes its own figures every three months. They count differently from the national figures above and are never combined with them. This quarter ends after the national reporting period, so it is the more recent of the two.

Covers July to September 2025, published by Queensland Health on 28 October 2025. Reported as Gold Coast University.

Patients treated
373 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Treated within the recommended time
99.7%July to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Still waiting at the end of the quarter
918 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Waiting longer than recommended
0 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025

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

All surgery at Gold Coast University Hospital · Adenoidectomy across Australia · Adenoidectomy in Queensland