Tonsillectomy waiting time at Hawkesbury Hospital
Half of patients at Hawkesbury Hospital waited 320 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 Windsor area of New South Wales.
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
| 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 Hospital, NSW · about 19 km away: 237 days
The Children's Hospital at Westmead, NSW · about 26 km away: 308 days
Westmead Hospital, NSW · about 27 km away: 249 days
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital, NSW · about 29 km away: 301 days
Ryde Hospital, NSW · about 32 km away: 318 days
Auburn Hospital, NSW · about 34 km away: 320 days
Concord Repatriation Hospital, NSW · about 36 km away: 231 days
Liverpool Hospital, NSW · about 36 km away: 309 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Hawkesbury Hospital
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| 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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