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Adenoid removal waiting times in New South Wales

The median wait for adenoid removal in New South Wales public hospitals was 274 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The national median was 144 days. The source publishes this surgery as "Adenoidectomy".

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026.

37 public hospitals in New South Wales reported adenoid removal in 2024–25. They are ranked by their published median wait alone, shortest first.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Adenoidectomy" and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.

7 hospitals have no published median wait for this surgery in this period. They are listed last, marked "not published", and are never ranked.

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 144 days marks the national median.

Adenoidectomy in New South Wales public hospitals, 2024–25. Hospitals with the same median share a rank and the next rank is skipped. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Rank Hospital Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
1 Royal Prince Alfred Hospital 56 days not published 19 surgeries
2 Cowra Health Service 76 days not published 26 surgeries
3 Tweed Valley Hospital 99 days 6.2% 129 surgeries
4 Orange Health Service 117 days not published 47 surgeries
5 Bathurst Base Hospital 129 days not published 31 surgeries
6 Port Macquarie Base Hospital 150 days not published 14 surgeries
7 Nepean Hospital 165 days 0.0% 74 surgeries
8 St George Hospital NSW 175 days not published 21 surgeries
9 Lismore Base Hospital 180 days not published 24 surgeries
10 Wollongong Hospital 199 days not published 49 surgeries
11 John Hunter Hospital 204 days not published 22 surgeries
12 Lachlan Health Service - Forbes 220 days not published 24 surgeries
13 Maitland Hospital 238 days not published 13 surgeries
14 The Children's Hospital at Westmead 252 days 31.1% 61 surgeries
15 Sydney Children's Hospital 301 days 41.5% 123 surgeries
16 Northern Beaches Hospital 305 days not published 14 surgeries
17 Dubbo Hospital 306 days 28.0% 50 surgeries
18 Auburn Hospital 307 days 0.0% 77 surgeries
18 Liverpool Hospital 307 days not published 30 surgeries
20 Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital 313 days not published 46 surgeries
21 Mudgee Health Service 318 days not published 35 surgeries
22 Coffs Harbour Hospital 320 days 34.0% 50 surgeries
22 Tamworth Hospital 320 days not published 14 surgeries
24 Campbelltown Hospital 321 days not published 44 surgeries
25 Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital 332 days 30.8% 52 surgeries
25 Royal North Shore Hospital 332 days 9.9% 81 surgeries
27 Canterbury Hospital 344 days 3.8% 79 surgeries
28 Gosford Hospital 346 days 31.7% 60 surgeries
29 Sutherland Hospital 360 days not published 43 surgeries
30 Wagga Wagga Hospital 369 days not published 45 surgeries
unranked Belmont Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Broken Hill Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Goulburn Base Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Hawkesbury Hospital not published not published 6 surgeries
unranked Murwillumbah District Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Prince of Wales Hospital not published not published not published
unranked St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst] not published not published not published

Ranked by area in New South Wales: near Camperdown · near Liverpool · near Randwick · near St Leonards.

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The median wait for adenoid removal in New South Wales public hospitals was 274 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

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Surgery Waits, "Adenoid removal waiting times in New South Wales", 2024–25 data released 28 May 2026, https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/adenoidectomy/nsw/, accessed 28 May 2026.

Attribution: Surgery Waits (https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/adenoidectomy/nsw/), from Australian Institute of Health and Welfare MyHospitals data, CC BY 3.0 AU. Reference period 2024–25, released 28 May 2026.

What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

Waiting times differ across state borders, and a referral can cross one — read what that means. Compare with every other state, or see every surgery reported in New South Wales.