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Tonsillectomy waiting times in New South Wales

The median wait for tonsillectomy in New South Wales public hospitals was 322 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The national median was 182 days. The source publishes this surgery as "Tonsillectomy (with or without adenoidectomy)".

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

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

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.

6 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 182 days marks the national median.

Tonsillectomy (with or without 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 40 days 0.0% 101 surgeries
2 Murwillumbah District Hospital 99 days not published 27 surgeries
3 Tweed Valley Hospital 109 days 12.8% 94 surgeries
4 John Hunter Hospital 168 days 30.1% 93 surgeries
5 Concord Repatriation Hospital 231 days not published 45 surgeries
6 Cowra Health Service 235 days 0.0% 85 surgeries
7 Nepean Hospital 237 days 3.8% 286 surgeries
8 Sydney Children's Hospital 239 days 25.8% 310 surgeries
9 Westmead Hospital 249 days not published 17 surgeries
10 Lismore Base Hospital 259 days not published 41 surgeries
11 St George Hospital NSW 261 days 9.4% 64 surgeries
12 Maitland Hospital 273 days 32.0% 147 surgeries
13 Bathurst Base Hospital 298 days 12.0% 92 surgeries
14 Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital 301 days 9.5% 116 surgeries
15 Northern Beaches Hospital 302 days 0.0% 120 surgeries
16 The Children's Hospital at Westmead 308 days 28.5% 214 surgeries
17 Lachlan Health Service - Forbes 309 days not published 12 surgeries
17 Liverpool Hospital 309 days 13.6% 88 surgeries
19 Ryde Hospital 318 days not published 27 surgeries
20 Auburn Hospital 320 days 0.0% 294 surgeries
20 Hawkesbury Hospital 320 days not published 29 surgeries
22 Orange Health Service 336 days 20.4% 186 surgeries
22 Wollongong Hospital 336 days 10.1% 405 surgeries
24 Campbelltown Hospital 337 days 12.9% 186 surgeries
25 Belmont Hospital 347 days not published 18 surgeries
25 Canterbury Hospital 347 days 3.2% 216 surgeries
27 Prince of Wales Hospital 348 days not published 41 surgeries
27 Sutherland Hospital 348 days 41.7% 108 surgeries
29 Royal North Shore Hospital 349 days 17.5% 80 surgeries
30 Gosford Hospital 351 days 31.3% 409 surgeries
30 Tamworth Hospital 351 days 25.0% 104 surgeries
32 Dubbo Hospital 361 days 46.7% 227 surgeries
33 Wagga Wagga Hospital 364 days 43.8% 192 surgeries
34 Coffs Harbour Hospital 365 days 50.0% 188 surgeries
35 Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital 368 days 51.5% 204 surgeries
unranked Broken Hill Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Goulburn Base Hospital not published not published 6 surgeries
unranked Griffith Base Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Kurri Kurri Hospital not published not published 5 surgeries
unranked Mudgee Health Service not published not published 9 surgeries
unranked St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst] not published not published 8 surgeries

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

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The median wait for tonsillectomy in New South Wales public hospitals was 322 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

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

Attribution: Surgery Waits (https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/tonsillectomy/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.

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