Tonsillectomy waiting time at Port Augusta Hospital and Regional Health Services

Median wait, long waits and volumes for tonsillectomy — published by the source as “Tonsillectomy (with or without adenoidectomy)” — at this public hospital in the Port Augusta area of South 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: 167 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 33 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: not published2024–25 · released 28 May 2026 — Reported data did not meet the criteria to calculate this indicator.

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 51 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 188 days in 2011–12 to 167 days in 2024–25 — down 11% — while the national median rose from 98 days to 182 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Lyell McEwin Hospital, about 262 km away, at 120 days.

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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
Port Augusta Hospital and Regional Health Services	167 days	not published	33 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)	111 days	11.4%	1161 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.

Port Pirie Regional Health ServiceSA · about 77 km away450 days
Gawler Health ServiceSA · about 249 km away267 days
Lyell McEwin HospitalSA · about 262 km away120 days
Modbury HospitalSA · about 272 km away212 days
The Queen Elizabeth HospitalSA · about 273 km away75 days
Women's and Children's HospitalSA · about 278 km away97 days
Royal Adelaide HospitalSA · about 278 km away165 days
Flinders Medical CentreSA · about 289 km away330 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 500 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 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	Port Augusta Hospital and Regional Health Services (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	188	64	98
2012–13	279	69	98
2013–14	139	71	99
2014–15	33	76	124
2015–16	27	87	120
2016–17	28	67	97
2017–18	27	86	121
2018–19	55	84	125
2019–20	53	92	130
2020–21	62	98	253
2021–22	44	138	168
2022–23	80	118	174
2023–24	185	140	185
2024–25	167	111	182

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

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