Tonsillectomy (with or without adenoidectomy) waiting time at Belmont Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Tonsillectomy (with or without adenoidectomy) at this public hospital, 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: 347 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 18 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 98 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

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
Belmont Hospital	347 days	not published	18 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	322 days	21.2%	4896 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.

John Hunter HospitalNSW · about 12 km away168 days
Maitland HospitalNSW · about 34 km away273 days
Gosford HospitalNSW · about 52 km away351 days
Northern Beaches HospitalNSW · about 89 km away302 days
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai HospitalNSW · about 90 km away301 days
Royal North Shore HospitalNSW · about 98 km away349 days
Ryde HospitalNSW · about 100 km away318 days
Hawkesbury HospitalNSW · about 101 km away320 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 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	Belmont Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	162	221	98
2012–13	282	258	98
2013–14	287	233	99
2014–15	118	260	124
2015–16	130	253	120
2016–17	51	265	97
2017–18	97	293	121
2018–19	240	303	125
2019–20	191	287	130
2020–21	189	326	253
2021–22	175	303	168
2022–23	72	306	174
2023–24	71	309	185
2024–25	347	322	182

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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