Tonsillectomy waiting time at Box Hill Hospital

The median wait for tonsillectomy — published by the source as "Tonsillectomy (with or without adenoidectomy)" — at this public hospital in the Box Hill area of Victoria was 230 days in 2024–25.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026

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

Median wait: 230 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 253 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 1.2%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 62 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 282 days in 2011–12 to 230 days in 2024–25 — down 18% — while the national median rose from 98 days to 182 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Blackburn Public Surgical Centre, about 4 km away, at 133 days. Here, 1.2% 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
Box Hill Hospital	230 days	1.2%	253 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.

Blackburn Public Surgical CentreVIC · about 4 km away133 days
Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]VIC · about 8 km away313 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 9 km away338 days
St Vincent's On the ParkVIC · about 12 km away102 days
The Royal Victorian Eye & Ear HospitalVIC · about 13 km away51 days
The AlfredVIC · about 13 km away67 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 13 km away160 days
Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin]VIC · about 13 km away52 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	Box Hill Hospital (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	282	98	98
2012–13	387	105	98
2013–14	220	104	99
2014–15	181	106	124
2015–16	128	87	120
2016–17	75	69	97
2017–18	140	81	121
2018–19	148	77	125
2019–20	164	80	130
2020–21	272	167	253
2021–22	167	110	168
2022–23	414	134	174
2023–24	249	159	185
2024–25	230	116	182

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

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