Tonsillectomy waiting time at Palmerston Regional Hospital
The median wait for tonsillectomy — published by the source as "Tonsillectomy (with or without adenoidectomy)" — at this public hospital in the Farrar area of Northern Territory was 125 days in 2024–25.
Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released
These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.
- Median wait
- 125 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 23 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 35 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has fallen from 150 days in 2020–21 to 125 days in 2024–25 — down 17% — while the national median fell from 253 days to 182 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Royal Darwin Hospital, about 19 km away, at 88 days.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Palmerston Regional Hospital | 125 days | not published | 23 surgeries |
| Northern Territory (all public hospitals) | 116 days | 15.3% | 137 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 182 days | 17.0% | 16182 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
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
- Palmerston Regional Hospital
- NT
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Palmerston Regional Hospital (days) | NT (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011–12 | not reported for this period | 73 | 98 |
| 2012–13 | not reported for this period | 75 | 98 |
| 2013–14 | not reported for this period | 67 | 99 |
| 2014–15 | not reported for this period | 80 | 124 |
| 2015–16 | not reported for this period | 58 | 120 |
| 2016–17 | not reported for this period | 49 | 97 |
| 2017–18 | not reported for this period | 23 | 121 |
| 2018–19 | not reported for this period | 73 | 125 |
| 2019–20 | not published | 54 | 130 |
| 2020–21 | 150 | 72 | 253 |
| 2021–22 | 93 | not published | 168 |
| 2022–23 | 56 | 55 | 174 |
| 2023–24 | 54 | 77 | 185 |
| 2024–25 | 125 | 116 | 182 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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