Tonsillectomy waiting time at Northeast Health Wangaratta

The median wait for tonsillectomy — published by the source as "Tonsillectomy (with or without adenoidectomy)" — at this public hospital in the Wangaratta area of Victoria was 293 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: 293 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 53 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 37.7%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 77 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 106 days in 2011–12 to 293 days in 2024–25 — up 176% — while the national median rose from 98 days to 182 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Albury Wodonga Health [Wodonga Campus], about 56 km away, at 145 days. Here, 37.7% 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
Northeast Health Wangaratta	293 days	37.7%	53 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	322 days	21.2%	4896 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.

Albury Wodonga Health [Wodonga Campus]VIC · about 56 km away145 days
Goulburn Valley Health [Shepparton]VIC · about 81 km away110 days
Wagga Wagga HospitalNSW · about 167 km away364 days
The Northern Hospital [Epping]VIC · about 185 km away95 days
Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]VIC · about 192 km away313 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 192 km away338 days
Angliss HospitalVIC · about 193 km away194 days
Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 194 km away230 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	Northeast Health Wangaratta (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	106	98	98
2012–13	133	105	98
2013–14	105	104	99
2014–15	130	106	124
2015–16	58	87	120
2016–17	79	69	97
2017–18	74	81	121
2018–19	87	77	125
2019–20	136	80	130
2020–21	78	167	253
2021–22	21	110	168
2022–23	116	134	174
2023–24	204	159	185
2024–25	293	116	182

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

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