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title: "Tonsillectomy waiting times in Tasmania"
description: "Public hospitals in Tasmania ranked by median wait for Tonsillectomy in 2024–25."
url: "https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/tonsillectomy/tas/"
---

# Tonsillectomy waiting times in Tasmania

The median wait for tonsillectomy in Tasmania public hospitals was **156 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.

3 public hospitals in Tasmania reported tonsillectomy in 2024–25. They are ranked by their published median wait alone, shortest first.

**[Compare this near you →](https://surgerywaits.au/)** 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.

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 182 days marks the national median.

- [Launceston General Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/launceston-general-hospital/tonsillectomy/): 124 days
- [North West Regional Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/north-west-regional-hospital/tonsillectomy/): 129 days
- [Royal Hobart Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/royal-hobart-hospital/tonsillectomy/): 220 days

Tonsillectomy (with or without adenoidectomy) in Tasmania 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 | [Launceston General Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/launceston-general-hospital/tonsillectomy/) | 124 days | 14.4% | 188 surgeries |
| 2 | [North West Regional Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/north-west-regional-hospital/tonsillectomy/) | 129 days | not published | 34 surgeries |
| 3 | [Royal Hobart Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/royal-hobart-hospital/tonsillectomy/) | 220 days | 25.7% | 136 surgeries |

**Cite this page**

> The median wait for tonsillectomy in Tasmania public hospitals was 156 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

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Surgery Waits, "Tonsillectomy waiting times in Tasmania", 2024–25 data released 28 May 2026, https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/tonsillectomy/tas/, accessed 28 May 2026.
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Attribution: Surgery Waits ([https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/tonsillectomy/tas/](https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/tonsillectomy/tas/)), 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](https://surgerywaits.au/guides/referral-to-another-hospital/). Compare with [every other state](https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/tonsillectomy/), or see [every surgery reported in Tasmania](https://surgerywaits.au/state/tas/).

## Before you use these figures

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Waiting-time figures: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare MyHospitals, licensed under [CC BY 3.0 AU](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/). Quarterly state figures: Queensland Health. Suburb and locality data: Australian Bureau of Statistics. Both licensed under [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Surgery Waits is not connected with any of these organisations.

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