Tonsillectomy waiting time at Flinders Medical 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 Bedford Park area of South 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: 330 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 224 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 17.9%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 92 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 75 days in 2011–12 to 330 days in 2024–25 — up 340% — while the national median rose from 98 days to 182 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Royal Adelaide Hospital, about 11 km away, at 165 days. Here, 17.9% 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
Flinders Medical Centre	330 days	17.9%	224 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)	111 days	11.4%	1161 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.

Royal Adelaide HospitalSA · about 11 km away165 days
Women's and Children's HospitalSA · about 13 km away97 days
Noarlunga HospitalSA · about 15 km away239 days
The Queen Elizabeth HospitalSA · about 16 km away75 days
Modbury HospitalSA · about 24 km away212 days
Lyell McEwin HospitalSA · about 32 km away120 days
Gawler Health ServiceSA · about 51 km away267 days
Riverland General HospitalSA · about 204 km away26 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	Flinders Medical Centre (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	75	64	98
2012–13	70	69	98
2013–14	64	71	99
2014–15	72	76	124
2015–16	113	87	120
2016–17	109	67	97
2017–18	139	86	121
2018–19	187	84	125
2019–20	93	92	130
2020–21	93	98	253
2021–22	83	138	168
2022–23	113	118	174
2023–24	212	140	185
2024–25	330	111	182

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

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