Tonsillectomy waiting time at Albany Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for tonsillectomy — published by the source as “Tonsillectomy (with or without adenoidectomy)” — at this public hospital in the Spencer Park area of Western Australia, with the nearest alternatives that published a figure.

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

Median wait: 145 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 45 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: not published2024–25 · released 28 May 2026 — Reported data did not meet the criteria to calculate this indicator.

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 44 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 87 days in 2011–12 to 145 days in 2024–25 — up 67% — while the national median rose from 98 days to 182 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Rockingham General Hospital, about 360 km away, at 120 days.

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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
Albany Hospital	145 days	not published	45 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)	183 days	33.3%	1581 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	182 days	17.0%	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.

Bunbury HospitalWA · about 276 km away306 days
Peel Health CampusWA · about 339 km away307 days
Rockingham General HospitalWA · about 360 km away120 days
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial HospitalWA · about 364 km away328 days
Fiona Stanley HospitalWA · about 378 km away197 days
Bentley Health ServiceWA · about 380 km away228 days
Fremantle Hospital and Health ServiceWA · about 383 km away393 days
St John of God Midland Public HospitalWA · about 388 km away129 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 500 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

How the wait has changed

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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 period	Albany Hospital (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	87	78	98
2012–13	82	88	98
2013–14	76	98	99
2014–15	89	118	124
2015–16	89	111	120
2016–17	89	129	97
2017–18	174	147	121
2018–19	93	211	125
2019–20	233	194	130
2020–21	128	295	253
2021–22	101	229	168
2022–23	274	287	174
2023–24	176	160	185
2024–25	145	183	182

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

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