Tonsillectomy waiting time at Geraldton 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 Beachlands 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: 208 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 37 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 56 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 117 days in 2011–12 to 208 days in 2024–25 — up 78% — while the national median rose from 98 days to 182 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Joondalup Health Campus (Public), about 347 km away, at 87 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
Geraldton Hospital	208 days	not published	37 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.

Joondalup Health Campus (Public)WA · about 347 km away87 days
Osborne Park HospitalWA · about 364 km away105 days
St John of God Midland Public HospitalWA · about 371 km away129 days
Sir Charles Gairdner HospitalWA · about 373 km away46 days
Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street CampusWA · about 373 km away183 days
Perth Children's HospitalWA · about 373 km away134 days
Bentley Health ServiceWA · about 380 km away228 days
Fremantle Hospital and Health ServiceWA · about 380 km away393 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	Geraldton Hospital (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	117	78	98
2012–13	119	88	98
2013–14	264	98	99
2014–15	135	118	124
2015–16	169	111	120
2016–17	161	129	97
2017–18	131	147	121
2018–19	219	211	125
2019–20	227	194	130
2020–21	253	295	253
2021–22	282	229	168
2022–23	328	287	174
2023–24	344	160	185
2024–25	208	183	182

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

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