Tonsillectomy waiting time at Hornsby Ku-ring-gai 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 Waitara 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: 301 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 116 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 9.5%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 80 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 111 days in 2011–12 to 301 days in 2024–25 — up 171% — while the national median rose from 98 days to 182 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Concord Repatriation Hospital, about 15 km away, at 231 days. Here, 9.5% 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
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital	301 days	9.5%	116 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.

Ryde HospitalNSW · about 11 km away318 days
Northern Beaches HospitalNSW · about 12 km away302 days
Royal North Shore HospitalNSW · about 15 km away349 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 15 km away231 days
The Children's Hospital at WestmeadNSW · about 16 km away308 days
Westmead HospitalNSW · about 16 km away249 days
Auburn HospitalNSW · about 19 km away320 days
Royal Prince Alfred HospitalNSW · about 22 km away40 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	Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	111	221	98
2012–13	147	258	98
2013–14	130	233	99
2014–15	158	260	124
2015–16	124	253	120
2016–17	165	265	97
2017–18	132	293	121
2018–19	124	303	125
2019–20	169	287	130
2020–21	312	326	253
2021–22	265	303	168
2022–23	165	306	174
2023–24	244	309	185
2024–25	301	322	182

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

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