Tonsillectomy waiting time at St John of God Midland Public 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 Midland 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: 129 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 36 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 145 days in 2015–16 to 129 days in 2024–25 — down 11% — while the national median rose from 120 days to 182 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Osborne Park Hospital, about 19 km away, at 105 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
St John of God Midland Public Hospital	129 days	not published	33 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.

Bentley Health ServiceWA · about 14 km away228 days
Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street CampusWA · about 15 km away183 days
Osborne Park HospitalWA · about 19 km away105 days
Perth Children's HospitalWA · about 20 km away134 days
Sir Charles Gairdner HospitalWA · about 20 km away46 days
Fiona Stanley HospitalWA · about 25 km away197 days
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial HospitalWA · about 27 km away328 days
Joondalup Health Campus (Public)WA · about 28 km away87 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	St John of God Midland Public Hospital (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	not reported for this period	78	98
2012–13	not reported for this period	88	98
2013–14	not reported for this period	98	99
2014–15	not reported for this period	118	124
2015–16	145	111	120
2016–17	167	129	97
2017–18	155	147	121
2018–19	197	211	125
2019–20	337	194	130
2020–21	309	295	253
2021–22	229	229	168
2022–23	290	287	174
2023–24	388	160	185
2024–25	129	183	182

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

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