Surgery Waits

Tonsillectomy waiting time at Sydney Children's Hospital

Half of patients at Sydney Children's Hospital waited 239 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 Randwick area of New South Wales.

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
239 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
310 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
25.8%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 66 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 203 days in 2011–12 to 239 days in 2024–25 — up 18% — while the national median rose from 98 days to 182 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, about 6 km away, at 40 days. Here, 25.8% 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

Median wait, long waits and volume for Tonsillectomy (with or without adenoidectomy), 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Sydney Children's Hospital239 days25.8%310 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 Sydney Children's Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays01002003004002011–122014–152017–182020–212023–242024–25Sydney Children's Hospital 239NSW 322Australia 182
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 periodSydney Children's Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2011–1220322198
2012–1318125898
2013–1412523399
2014–15173260124
2015–16183253120
2016–1721026597
2017–18143293121
2018–19105303125
2019–20170287130
2020–21220326253
2021–2238303168
2022–23176306174
2023–24291309185
2024–25239322182

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

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