Tonsillectomy (with or without adenoidectomy) waiting time at Mater Adult Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Tonsillectomy (with or without adenoidectomy) at this public hospital, 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: 293 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 52 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 11.5%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 77 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

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
Mater Adult Hospital	293 days	11.5%	52 surgeries
Queensland (all public hospitals)	115 days	4.9%	3023 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.

Queensland Children's HospitalQLD · about 0 km away80 days
Princess Alexandra HospitalQLD · about 2 km away56 days
Surgical Treatment and Rehabilitation ServiceQLD · about 4 km away339 days
Royal Brisbane & Women's HospitalQLD · about 4 km away123 days
Logan HospitalQLD · about 23 km away278 days
Redcliffe HospitalQLD · about 30 km away266 days
Ipswich HospitalQLD · about 30 km away76 days
Gold Coast University HospitalQLD · about 63 km away266 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	Mater Adult Hospital (days)	QLD (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	not reported for this period	61	98
2012–13	38	56	98
2013–14	72	56	99
2014–15	not reported for this period	73	124
2015–16	49	80	120
2016–17	86	88	97
2017–18	240	175	121
2018–19	85	173	125
2019–20	222	90	130
2020–21	22	232	253
2021–22	79	102	168
2022–23	22	110	174
2023–24	64	104	185
2024–25	293	115	182

Queensland's quarterly figures for ent surgery

These are not figures for tonsillectomy (with or without adenoidectomy). Queensland reports by surgical specialty, not by procedure. A specialty covers many different operations, so a specialty figure is never a figure for any one of them.

Queensland Health publishes its own figures every three months. They count differently from the national figures above and are never combined with them. This quarter ends after the national reporting period, so it is the more recent of the two.

Covers July to September 2025, published by Queensland Health on 28 October 2025. Reported as Mater Adult.

Patients treated: 149 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Treated within the recommended time: 68.5%July to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Still waiting at the end of the quarter: 262 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Waiting longer than recommended: 39 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025

What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

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