Tonsillectomy waiting time at Perth Children's Hospital

The median wait for tonsillectomy — published by the source as "Tonsillectomy (with or without adenoidectomy)" — at this public hospital in the Crawley area of Western Australia was 134 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: 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%.

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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
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 HospitalWA · about 0 km away46 days
Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street CampusWA · about 5 km away183 days
Osborne Park HospitalWA · about 9 km away105 days
Bentley Health ServiceWA · about 11 km away228 days
Fiona Stanley HospitalWA · about 12 km away197 days
Fremantle Hospital and Health ServiceWA · about 12 km away393 days
St John of God Midland Public HospitalWA · about 20 km away129 days
Joondalup Health Campus (Public)WA · about 26 km away87 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
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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	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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