Tonsillectomy waiting time at Hawkesbury Hospital

The median wait for tonsillectomy — published by the source as "Tonsillectomy (with or without adenoidectomy)" — at this public hospital in the Windsor area of New South Wales was 320 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: 320 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 29 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 89 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 81 days in 2011–12 to 320 days in 2024–25 — up 295% — while the national median rose from 98 days to 182 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Nepean Hospital, about 19 km away, at 237 days.

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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
Hawkesbury Hospital	320 days	not published	29 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	322 days	21.2%	4896 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.

Nepean HospitalNSW · about 19 km away237 days
The Children's Hospital at WestmeadNSW · about 26 km away308 days
Westmead HospitalNSW · about 27 km away249 days
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai HospitalNSW · about 29 km away301 days
Ryde HospitalNSW · about 32 km away318 days
Auburn HospitalNSW · about 34 km away320 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 36 km away231 days
Liverpool HospitalNSW · about 36 km away309 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	Hawkesbury Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	81	221	98
2012–13	76	258	98
2013–14	95	233	99
2014–15	46	260	124
2015–16	60	253	120
2016–17	103	265	97
2017–18	129	293	121
2018–19	353	303	125
2019–20	359	287	130
2020–21	351	326	253
2021–22	347	303	168
2022–23	195	306	174
2023–24	391	309	185
2024–25	320	322	182

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

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