Surgery Waits

Tonsillectomy waiting time at Ryde Hospital

The median wait for tonsillectomy — published by the source as "Tonsillectomy (with or without adenoidectomy)" — at this public hospital in the Denistone East area of New South Wales was 318 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
318 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
27 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 88 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 332 days in 2013–14 to 318 days in 2024–25 — down 4% — while the national median rose from 99 days to 182 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Concord Repatriation Hospital, about 5 km away, at 231 days.

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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
Ryde Hospital318 daysnot published27 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)322 days21.2%4896 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)182 days17.0%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.

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

How the wait has changed

Median wait for tonsillectomy (with or without adenoidectomy) by financial year at Ryde Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays01002003004002011–122014–152017–182020–212023–242024–25Ryde Hospital 318NSW 322Australia 182
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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 periodRyde Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2011–12not reported for this period22198
2012–13not published25898
2013–1433223399
2014–15320260124
2015–16302253120
2016–1730726597
2017–18295293121
2018–19322303125
2019–20288287130
2020–21297326253
2021–22382303168
2022–23392306174
2023–24310309185
2024–25318322182

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

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