Tonsillectomy waiting time at Orange Health Service

Median wait, long waits and volumes for tonsillectomy — published by the source as “Tonsillectomy (with or without adenoidectomy)” — at this public hospital in the Spring Creek 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: 336 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 186 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 20.4%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 93 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 256 days in 2011–12 to 336 days in 2024–25 — up 31% — while the national median rose from 98 days to 182 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Bathurst Base Hospital, about 46 km away, at 298 days. Here, 20.4% 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
Orange Health Service	336 days	20.4%	186 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.

Bathurst Base HospitalNSW · about 46 km away298 days
Cowra Health ServiceNSW · about 68 km away235 days
Lachlan Health Service - ForbesNSW · about 101 km away309 days
Dubbo HospitalNSW · about 128 km away361 days
Nepean HospitalNSW · about 158 km away237 days
Hawkesbury HospitalNSW · about 163 km away320 days
Campbelltown HospitalNSW · about 180 km away337 days
Liverpool HospitalNSW · about 183 km away309 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	Orange Health Service (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	256	221	98
2012–13	310	258	98
2013–14	305	233	99
2014–15	266	260	124
2015–16	329	253	120
2016–17	190	265	97
2017–18	306	293	121
2018–19	323	303	125
2019–20	347	287	130
2020–21	347	326	253
2021–22	333	303	168
2022–23	347	306	174
2023–24	343	309	185
2024–25	336	322	182

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

All surgery at Orange Health Service · Tonsillectomy across Australia · Tonsillectomy in New South Wales