Surgery Waits

Adenoidectomy waiting time at Sydney Children's Hospital

The median wait for adenoidectomy at this public hospital in the Randwick area of New South Wales was 301 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
301 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
123 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
41.5%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 70 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 50 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 239 days in 2016–17 to 301 days in 2024–25 — up 26% — while the national median rose from 84 days to 144 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, about 6 km away, at 56 days. Here, 41.5% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 15.5%.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Adenoidectomy, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Sydney Children's Hospital301 days41.5%123 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)274 days18.3%1412 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)144 days15.5%3784 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 144 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 adenoidectomy by financial year at Sydney Children's Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays01002003004002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Sydney Children's Hospital 301NSW 274Australia 144
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Adenoidectomy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodSydney Children's Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–1723922484
2017–1815323595
2018–1915326797
2019–2022727397
2020–21218314207
2021–22146245111
2022–23204269128
2023–24340293148
2024–25301274144

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

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