Tonsillectomy waiting time at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
Half of patients at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre waited 6 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 Carlton area of Victoria.
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
- 6 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 12 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 1 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here is unchanged from 2023–24 (6 days) — while the national median fell from 185 days to 182 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre | 6 days | not published | 12 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.
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus], VIC · about 0 km away: 118 days
Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville], VIC · about 1 km away: 211 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne], VIC · about 2 km away: 160 days
The Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital, VIC · about 2 km away: 51 days
St Vincent's On the Park, VIC · about 2 km away: 102 days
The Alfred, VIC · about 6 km away: 67 days
Williamstown Hospital, VIC · about 9 km away: 163 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West], VIC · about 9 km away: 338 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
- VIC
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre (days) | VIC (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011–12 | not published | 98 | 98 |
| 2012–13 | not published | 105 | 98 |
| 2013–14 | not published | 104 | 99 |
| 2014–15 | not published | 106 | 124 |
| 2015–16 | not published | 87 | 120 |
| 2016–17 | not published | 69 | 97 |
| 2017–18 | not published | 81 | 121 |
| 2018–19 | not reported for this period | 77 | 125 |
| 2019–20 | not reported for this period | 80 | 130 |
| 2020–21 | not published | 167 | 253 |
| 2021–22 | not published | 110 | 168 |
| 2022–23 | not published | 134 | 174 |
| 2023–24 | 6 | 159 | 185 |
| 2024–25 | 6 | 116 | 182 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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