Tonsillectomy waiting time at Lachlan Health Service - Forbes

The median wait for tonsillectomy — published by the source as "Tonsillectomy (with or without adenoidectomy)" — at this public hospital in the Forbes area of New South Wales was 309 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: 309 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 12 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 85 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 290 days in 2011–12 to 309 days in 2024–25 — up 7% — while the national median rose from 98 days to 182 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Cowra Health Service, about 79 km away, at 235 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

Median wait, long waits and volume for Tonsillectomy (with or without adenoidectomy), 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Lachlan Health Service - Forbes	309 days	not published	12 surgeries
Australian Capital Territory (all public hospitals)	302 days	46.0%	215 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.

Cowra Health ServiceNSW · about 79 km away235 days
Orange Health ServiceNSW · about 101 km away336 days
Dubbo HospitalNSW · about 141 km away361 days
Bathurst Base HospitalNSW · about 145 km away298 days
Wagga Wagga HospitalNSW · about 201 km away364 days
North Canberra HospitalACT · about 229 km away136 days
The Canberra HospitalACT · about 239 km away392 days

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

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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	Lachlan Health Service - Forbes (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	290	221	98
2012–13	263	258	98
2013–14	288	233	99
2014–15	196	260	124
2015–16	171	253	120
2016–17	254	265	97
2017–18	300	293	121
2018–19	273	303	125
2019–20	not reported for this period	287	130
2020–21	154	326	253
2021–22	not published	303	168
2022–23	84	306	174
2023–24	110	309	185
2024–25	309	322	182

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

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