Tonsillectomy waiting time at Royal Adelaide 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 Adelaide 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: 165 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 46 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 50 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 100 days in 2011–12 to 165 days in 2024–25 — up 65% — while the national median rose from 98 days to 182 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Women's and Children's Hospital, about 2 km away, at 97 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
Royal Adelaide Hospital	165 days	not published	46 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.

Women's and Children's HospitalSA · about 2 km away97 days
The Queen Elizabeth HospitalSA · about 6 km away75 days
Flinders Medical CentreSA · about 11 km away330 days
Modbury HospitalSA · about 13 km away212 days
Lyell McEwin HospitalSA · about 21 km away120 days
Noarlunga HospitalSA · about 26 km away239 days
Gawler Health ServiceSA · about 39 km away267 days
Riverland General HospitalSA · about 198 km away26 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	Royal Adelaide Hospital (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	100	64	98
2012–13	76	69	98
2013–14	93	71	99
2014–15	90	76	124
2015–16	224	87	120
2016–17	94	67	97
2017–18	99	86	121
2018–19	158	84	125
2019–20	87	92	130
2020–21	168	98	253
2021–22	300	138	168
2022–23	143	118	174
2023–24	132	140	185
2024–25	165	111	182

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

All surgery at Royal Adelaide Hospital · Tonsillectomy across Australia · Tonsillectomy in South Australia