Surgery Waits

Adenoidectomy waiting time at Fiona Stanley Hospital

The median wait for adenoidectomy at this public hospital in the Murdoch area of Western Australia was 585 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
585 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
17 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 70 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 70 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 203 days in 2016–17 to 585 days in 2024–25 — up 188% — while the national median rose from 84 days to 144 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Perth Children's Hospital, about 12 km away, at 124 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Adenoidectomy, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Fiona Stanley Hospital585 daysnot published17 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)119 days28.5%316 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)144 days15.5%3784 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 144 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 adenoidectomy by financial year at Fiona Stanley Hospital, compared with Western Australia and Australiadays01883755637502016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Fiona Stanley Hospital 585WA 119Australia 144
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Adenoidectomy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodFiona Stanley Hospital (days)WA (days)Australia (days)
2016–172037784
2017–181009095
2018–1913111297
2019–201599197
2020–21376253207
2021–22not published136111
2022–23531101128
2023–24546134148
2024–25585119144

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

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