Tonsillectomy waiting time at Gawler Health Service

The median wait for tonsillectomy — published by the source as "Tonsillectomy (with or without adenoidectomy)" — at this public hospital in the Gawler area of South Australia was 267 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: 267 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 31 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 73 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 13 days in 2011–12 to 267 days in 2024–25 — up 1954% — while the national median rose from 98 days to 182 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Lyell McEwin Hospital, about 19 km away, at 120 days.

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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
Gawler Health Service	267 days	not published	31 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.

Lyell McEwin HospitalSA · about 19 km away120 days
Modbury HospitalSA · about 27 km away212 days
Women's and Children's HospitalSA · about 38 km away97 days
The Queen Elizabeth HospitalSA · about 38 km away75 days
Royal Adelaide HospitalSA · about 39 km away165 days
Flinders Medical CentreSA · about 51 km away330 days
Noarlunga HospitalSA · about 65 km away239 days
Port Pirie Regional Health ServiceSA · about 172 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	Gawler Health Service (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	13	64	98
2012–13	129	69	98
2013–14	234	71	99
2014–15	120	76	124
2015–16	289	87	120
2016–17	210	67	97
2017–18	272	86	121
2018–19	126	84	125
2019–20	90	92	130
2020–21	323	98	253
2021–22	236	138	168
2022–23	120	118	174
2023–24	308	140	185
2024–25	267	111	182

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

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