Tonsillectomy waiting time at North West Regional Hospital

The median wait for tonsillectomy — published by the source as "Tonsillectomy (with or without adenoidectomy)" — at this public hospital in the Park Grove area of Tasmania was 129 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: 129 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 34 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 36 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 57 days in 2011–12 to 129 days in 2024–25 — up 126% — while the national median rose from 98 days to 182 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Launceston General Hospital, about 114 km away, at 124 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
North West Regional Hospital	129 days	not published	34 surgeries
Tasmania (all public hospitals)	156 days	17.3%	358 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	116 days	15.1%	4811 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.

Launceston General HospitalTAS · about 114 km away124 days
Royal Hobart HospitalTAS · about 236 km away220 days
Latrobe Regional Hospital [Traralgon]VIC · about 319 km away450 days
West Gippsland Healthcare Group [Warragul]VIC · about 320 km away389 days
Frankston Public Surgical CentreVIC · about 328 km away94 days
Frankston HospitalVIC · about 329 km away132 days
Casey HospitalVIC · about 337 km away62 days
University Hospital GeelongVIC · about 347 km away75 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 500 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 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	North West Regional Hospital (days)	TAS (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	57	103	98
2012–13	176	96	98
2013–14	322	114	99
2014–15	327	219	124
2015–16	134	180	120
2016–17	173	89	97
2017–18	92	78	121
2018–19	169	148	125
2019–20	not published	188	130
2020–21	674	174	253
2021–22	328	176	168
2022–23	188	125	174
2023–24	97	151	185
2024–25	129	156	182

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

All surgery at North West Regional Hospital · Tonsillectomy across Australia · Tonsillectomy in Tasmania