Tonsillectomy waiting time at Gosford 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 Gosford area of New South Wales, 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: 351 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 409 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 31.3%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 103 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 335 days in 2011–12 to 351 days in 2024–25 — up 5% — while the national median rose from 98 days to 182 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital, about 38 km away, at 301 days. Here, 31.3% 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
Gosford Hospital	351 days	31.3%	409 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.

Hornsby Ku-ring-gai HospitalNSW · about 38 km away301 days
Northern Beaches HospitalNSW · about 38 km away302 days
Royal North Shore HospitalNSW · about 47 km away349 days
Ryde HospitalNSW · about 48 km away318 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 52 km away231 days
Belmont HospitalNSW · about 52 km away347 days
Hawkesbury HospitalNSW · about 53 km away320 days
The Children's Hospital at WestmeadNSW · about 53 km away308 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	Gosford Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	335	221	98
2012–13	211	258	98
2013–14	185	233	99
2014–15	337	260	124
2015–16	340	253	120
2016–17	335	265	97
2017–18	327	293	121
2018–19	328	303	125
2019–20	291	287	130
2020–21	384	326	253
2021–22	367	303	168
2022–23	429	306	174
2023–24	230	309	185
2024–25	351	322	182

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

All surgery at Gosford Hospital · Tonsillectomy across Australia · Tonsillectomy in New South Wales