Tonsillectomy waiting time at Royal North Shore 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 St Leonards 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: 349 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 80 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 17.5%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 102 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 196 days in 2011–12 to 349 days in 2024–25 — up 78% — while the national median rose from 98 days to 182 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, about 8 km away, at 40 days. Here, 17.5% 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
Royal North Shore Hospital	349 days	17.5%	80 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.

Royal Prince Alfred HospitalNSW · about 8 km away40 days
Northern Beaches HospitalNSW · about 9 km away302 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 9 km away231 days
Ryde HospitalNSW · about 10 km away318 days
Sydney Children's HospitalNSW · about 12 km away239 days
Prince of Wales HospitalNSW · about 12 km away348 days
Canterbury HospitalNSW · about 14 km away347 days
Auburn HospitalNSW · about 15 km away320 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 North Shore Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	196	221	98
2012–13	331	258	98
2013–14	163	233	99
2014–15	309	260	124
2015–16	301	253	120
2016–17	340	265	97
2017–18	356	293	121
2018–19	339	303	125
2019–20	351	287	130
2020–21	342	326	253
2021–22	382	303	168
2022–23	423	306	174
2023–24	360	309	185
2024–25	349	322	182

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

All surgery at Royal North Shore Hospital · Tonsillectomy across Australia · Tonsillectomy in New South Wales