Surgery Waits

Tonsillectomy waiting time at Bathurst Base Hospital

The median wait for tonsillectomy — published by the source as "Tonsillectomy (with or without adenoidectomy)" — at this public hospital in the Bathurst area of New South Wales was 298 days in 2024–25.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released

These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.

Median wait
298 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
92 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
12.0%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 79 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 200 days in 2011–12 to 298 days in 2024–25 — up 49% — while the national median rose from 98 days to 182 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Cowra Health Service, about 94 km away, at 235 days. Here, 12.0% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 17.0%.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Tonsillectomy (with or without adenoidectomy)" and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.

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
Bathurst Base Hospital298 days12.0%92 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)322 days21.2%4896 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)182 days17.0%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.

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

How the wait has changed

Median wait for tonsillectomy (with or without adenoidectomy) by financial year at Bathurst Base Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays01002003004002011–122014–152017–182020–212023–242024–25Bathurst Base Hospital 298NSW 322Australia 182
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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 periodBathurst Base Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2011–1220022198
2012–1321625898
2013–1428023399
2014–15214260124
2015–16251253120
2016–1717726597
2017–18308293121
2018–19137303125
2019–20292287130
2020–21330326253
2021–22353303168
2022–23226306174
2023–24356309185
2024–25298322182

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

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