Tonsillectomy waiting time at The Royal Victorian Eye & Ear 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 East Melbourne area of Victoria, 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: 51 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 459 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 14.4%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 9 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 24 days in 2011–12 to 51 days in 2024–25 — up 113% — while the national median rose from 98 days to 182 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, about 2 km away, at 6 days. Here, 14.4% 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
The Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital	51 days	14.4%	459 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	116 days	15.1%	4811 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.

St Vincent's On the ParkVIC · about 0 km away102 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 0 km away160 days
Peter MacCallum Cancer CentreVIC · about 2 km away6 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 2 km away118 days
Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville]VIC · about 3 km away211 days
The AlfredVIC · about 4 km away67 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 9 km away338 days
Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]VIC · about 9 km away313 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 Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	24	98	98
2012–13	22	105	98
2013–14	26	104	99
2014–15	31	106	124
2015–16	40	87	120
2016–17	36	69	97
2017–18	63	81	121
2018–19	63	77	125
2019–20	49	80	130
2020–21	133	167	253
2021–22	141	110	168
2022–23	94	134	174
2023–24	99	159	185
2024–25	51	116	182

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

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