Tonsillectomy waiting time at Bunbury 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 College Grove 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: 306 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 137 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 35.0%2024–25 · released 28 May 2026

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

The median wait here has fallen from 317 days in 2011–12 to 306 days in 2024–25 — down 3% — 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 120 km away, at 120 days. Here, 35.0% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 17.0%.

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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
Bunbury Hospital	306 days	35.0%	137 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.

Peel Health CampusWA · about 93 km away307 days
Rockingham General HospitalWA · about 120 km away120 days
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial HospitalWA · about 142 km away328 days
Fiona Stanley HospitalWA · about 145 km away197 days
Fremantle Hospital and Health ServiceWA · about 146 km away393 days
Bentley Health ServiceWA · about 154 km away228 days
Perth Children's HospitalWA · about 156 km away134 days
Sir Charles Gairdner HospitalWA · about 156 km away46 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	Bunbury Hospital (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	317	78	98
2012–13	184	88	98
2013–14	174	98	99
2014–15	330	118	124
2015–16	241	111	120
2016–17	319	129	97
2017–18	476	147	121
2018–19	465	211	125
2019–20	313	194	130
2020–21	333	295	253
2021–22	192	229	168
2022–23	454	287	174
2023–24	383	160	185
2024–25	306	183	182

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

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