Tonsillectomy waiting time at The Queen Elizabeth 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 Woodville South 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: 75 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 35 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 16 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 73 days in 2011–12 to 75 days in 2024–25 — up 3% — while the national median rose from 98 days to 182 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.

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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
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital	75 days	not published	35 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.

Royal Adelaide HospitalSA · about 6 km away165 days
Women's and Children's HospitalSA · about 7 km away97 days
Modbury HospitalSA · about 15 km away212 days
Flinders Medical CentreSA · about 16 km away330 days
Lyell McEwin HospitalSA · about 19 km away120 days
Noarlunga HospitalSA · about 29 km away239 days
Gawler Health ServiceSA · about 38 km away267 days
Port Pirie Regional Health ServiceSA · about 196 km away450 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	The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	73	64	98
2012–13	51	69	98
2013–14	99	71	99
2014–15	285	76	124
2015–16	279	87	120
2016–17	83	67	97
2017–18	49	86	121
2018–19	29	84	125
2019–20	29	92	130
2020–21	158	98	253
2021–22	188	138	168
2022–23	101	118	174
2023–24	85	140	185
2024–25	75	111	182

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

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