Surgery Waits

Tonsillectomy waiting time at Maitland Hospital

Half of patients at Maitland Hospital waited 273 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 Telarah 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
273 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
147 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
32.0%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 74 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 120 days in 2011–12 to 273 days in 2024–25 — up 127% — while the national median rose from 98 days to 182 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is John Hunter Hospital, about 26 km away, at 168 days. Here, 32.0% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 17.0%.

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
Maitland Hospital273 days32.0%147 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)322 days21.2%4896 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)182 days17.0%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.

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

How the wait has changed

Median wait for tonsillectomy (with or without adenoidectomy) by financial year at Maitland Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays01002003004002011–122014–152017–182020–212023–242024–25Maitland Hospital 273NSW 322Australia 182
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 periodMaitland Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2011–1212022198
2012–1317925898
2013–1425323399
2014–15124260124
2015–16301253120
2016–179626597
2017–18189293121
2018–19210303125
2019–20190287130
2020–21203326253
2021–22216303168
2022–2390306174
2023–24212309185
2024–25273322182

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

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