Adenoid removal waiting time at Mount Isa Base Hospital
Half of patients at Mount Isa Base Hospital waited 1 day or less for adenoid removal in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Adenoidectomy". This public hospital is in the Mornington area of Queensland.
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
- 1 day2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 10 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 70 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 1 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here is unchanged from 2018–19 (1 day) — while the national median rose from 97 days to 144 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.
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
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Isa Base Hospital | 1 day | not published | 10 surgeries |
| Queensland (all public hospitals) | 68 days | 1.7% | 769 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 144 days | 15.5% | 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.
Townsville University Hospital, QLD · about 775 km away: 119 days
Cairns Hospital, QLD · about 785 km away: 45 days
Weipa Hospital, QLD · about 937 km away: 1 day
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 1000 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Mount Isa Base Hospital
- QLD
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Mount Isa Base Hospital (days) | QLD (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | not published | 60 | 84 |
| 2017–18 | not published | 75 | 95 |
| 2018–19 | 1 | 74 | 97 |
| 2019–20 | 2 | 69 | 97 |
| 2020–21 | not published | 76 | 207 |
| 2021–22 | 2 | 70 | 111 |
| 2022–23 | 1 | 88 | 128 |
| 2023–24 | 1 | 69 | 148 |
| 2024–25 | 1 | 68 | 144 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
All surgery at Mount Isa Base Hospital · Adenoid removal across Australia · Adenoid removal in Queensland · All surgery waits in Queensland