Tonsillectomy waiting time at Northern Beaches Hospital

The median wait for tonsillectomy — published by the source as "Tonsillectomy (with or without adenoidectomy)" — at this public hospital in the Frenchs Forest area of New South Wales was 302 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: 302 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 120 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 0.0%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 81 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 11 days in 2018–19 to 302 days in 2024–25 — up 2645% — while the national median rose from 125 days to 182 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital, about 12 km away, at 301 days. Here, 0.0% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 17.0%.

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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
Northern Beaches Hospital	302 days	0.0%	120 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.

Royal North Shore HospitalNSW · about 9 km away349 days
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai HospitalNSW · about 12 km away301 days
Ryde HospitalNSW · about 14 km away318 days
Royal Prince Alfred HospitalNSW · about 16 km away40 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 16 km away231 days
Sydney Children's HospitalNSW · about 19 km away239 days
Prince of Wales HospitalNSW · about 19 km away348 days
Auburn HospitalNSW · about 22 km away320 days

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

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	Northern Beaches Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	not reported for this period	221	98
2012–13	not reported for this period	258	98
2013–14	not reported for this period	233	99
2014–15	not reported for this period	260	124
2015–16	not reported for this period	253	120
2016–17	not reported for this period	265	97
2017–18	not reported for this period	293	121
2018–19	11	303	125
2019–20	69	287	130
2020–21	237	326	253
2021–22	237	303	168
2022–23	238	306	174
2023–24	302	309	185
2024–25	302	322	182

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

All surgery at Northern Beaches Hospital · Tonsillectomy across Australia · Tonsillectomy in New South Wales