Tonsillectomy waiting time at Perth Children's Hospital
Half of patients at Perth Children's Hospital waited 134 days or less for tonsillectomy in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Tonsillectomy (with or without adenoidectomy)". This public hospital is in the Crawley area of Western Australia.
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
- 134 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 667 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Waited more than 365 days
- 43.0%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 41 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has fallen from 362 days in 2017–18 to 134 days in 2024–25 — down 63% — while the national median rose from 121 days to 182 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, about 0 km away, at 46 days. Here, 43.0% 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
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Perth Children's Hospital | 134 days | 43.0% | 667 surgeries |
| Western Australia (all public hospitals) | 183 days | 33.3% | 1581 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.
Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, WA · about 0 km away: 46 days
Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus, WA · about 5 km away: 183 days
Osborne Park Hospital, WA · about 9 km away: 105 days
Bentley Health Service, WA · about 11 km away: 228 days
Fiona Stanley Hospital, WA · about 12 km away: 197 days
Fremantle Hospital and Health Service, WA · about 12 km away: 393 days
St John of God Midland Public Hospital, WA · about 20 km away: 129 days
Joondalup Health Campus (Public), WA · about 26 km away: 87 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Perth Children's Hospital
- WA
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Perth Children's Hospital (days) | WA (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011–12 | not reported for this period | 78 | 98 |
| 2012–13 | not reported for this period | 88 | 98 |
| 2013–14 | not reported for this period | 98 | 99 |
| 2014–15 | not reported for this period | 118 | 124 |
| 2015–16 | not reported for this period | 111 | 120 |
| 2016–17 | not reported for this period | 129 | 97 |
| 2017–18 | 362 | 147 | 121 |
| 2018–19 | 366 | 211 | 125 |
| 2019–20 | 184 | 194 | 130 |
| 2020–21 | 365 | 295 | 253 |
| 2021–22 | 272 | 229 | 168 |
| 2022–23 | 171 | 287 | 174 |
| 2023–24 | 137 | 160 | 185 |
| 2024–25 | 134 | 183 | 182 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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