Tonsillectomy waiting time at Joondalup Health Campus (Public)

Median wait, long waits and volumes for tonsillectomy — published by the source as “Tonsillectomy (with or without adenoidectomy)” — at this public hospital in the Joondalup 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: 87 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 124 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 0.0%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 20 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 357 days in 2011–12 to 87 days in 2024–25 — down 76% — while the national median rose from 98 days to 182 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, about 26 km away, at 46 days. Here, 0.0% 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
Joondalup Health Campus (Public)	87 days	0.0%	124 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.

Osborne Park HospitalWA · about 17 km away105 days
Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street CampusWA · about 26 km away183 days
Sir Charles Gairdner HospitalWA · about 26 km away46 days
Perth Children's HospitalWA · about 26 km away134 days
St John of God Midland Public HospitalWA · about 28 km away129 days
Bentley Health ServiceWA · about 33 km away228 days
Fremantle Hospital and Health ServiceWA · about 36 km away393 days
Fiona Stanley HospitalWA · about 38 km away197 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	Joondalup Health Campus (Public) (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	357	78	98
2012–13	136	88	98
2013–14	184	98	99
2014–15	289	118	124
2015–16	11	111	120
2016–17	136	129	97
2017–18	183	147	121
2018–19	175	211	125
2019–20	268	194	130
2020–21	105	295	253
2021–22	118	229	168
2022–23	147	287	174
2023–24	109	160	185
2024–25	87	183	182

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

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