Tonsillectomy waiting time at Blackburn Public Surgical Centre

Median wait, long waits and volumes for tonsillectomy — published by the source as “Tonsillectomy (with or without adenoidectomy)” — at this public hospital in the Blackburn South area of Victoria, 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: 133 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 26 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 40 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Monash Medical Centre [Clayton], about 10 km away, at 64 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
Blackburn Public Surgical Centre	133 days	not published	26 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	116 days	15.1%	4811 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.

Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 4 km away230 days
Monash Medical Centre [Clayton]VIC · about 10 km away64 days
Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]VIC · about 12 km away313 days
Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin]VIC · about 13 km away52 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 13 km away338 days
The AlfredVIC · about 15 km away67 days
Angliss HospitalVIC · about 16 km away194 days
St Vincent's On the ParkVIC · about 16 km away102 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	Blackburn Public Surgical Centre (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	not reported for this period	98	98
2012–13	not reported for this period	105	98
2013–14	not reported for this period	104	99
2014–15	not reported for this period	106	124
2015–16	not reported for this period	87	120
2016–17	not reported for this period	69	97
2017–18	not reported for this period	81	121
2018–19	not reported for this period	77	125
2019–20	not reported for this period	80	130
2020–21	not reported for this period	167	253
2021–22	not reported for this period	110	168
2022–23	not reported for this period	134	174
2023–24	not reported for this period	159	185
2024–25	133	116	182

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

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