Tonsillectomy waiting time at Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus

Median wait, long waits and volumes for tonsillectomy — published by the source as “Tonsillectomy (with or without adenoidectomy)” — at this public hospital in the Perth area of Western 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: 183 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 48 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 53 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 114 days in 2011–12 to 183 days in 2024–25 — up 61% — while the national median rose from 98 days to 182 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Perth Children's Hospital, about 5 km away, at 134 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 Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus	183 days	not published	48 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)	183 days	33.3%	1581 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.

Perth Children's HospitalWA · about 5 km away134 days
Sir Charles Gairdner HospitalWA · about 5 km away46 days
Bentley Health ServiceWA · about 8 km away228 days
Osborne Park HospitalWA · about 10 km away105 days
Fiona Stanley HospitalWA · about 13 km away197 days
St John of God Midland Public HospitalWA · about 15 km away129 days
Fremantle Hospital and Health ServiceWA · about 16 km away393 days
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial HospitalWA · about 25 km away328 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus
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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 Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	114	78	98
2012–13	61	88	98
2013–14	63	98	99
2014–15	23	118	124
2015–16	86	111	120
2016–17	29	129	97
2017–18	25	147	121
2018–19	43	211	125
2019–20	122	194	130
2020–21	188	295	253
2021–22	41	229	168
2022–23	181	287	174
2023–24	118	160	185
2024–25	183	183	182

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

All surgery at Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus · Tonsillectomy across Australia · Tonsillectomy in Western Australia