Surgery Waits

Adenoidectomy waiting time at Launceston General Hospital

The median wait for adenoidectomy at this public hospital in the South Launceston area of Tasmania was 97 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
97 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
25 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 21 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 68 days in 2016–17 to 97 days in 2024–25 — up 43% — while the national median rose from 84 days to 144 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Latrobe Regional Hospital [Traralgon], about 363 km away, at 75 days.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "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 Adenoidectomy, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Launceston General Hospital97 daysnot published25 surgeries
Tasmania (all public hospitals)191 days18.8%160 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)140 days19.1%786 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 500 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

Some of these hospitals are in another state — a public hospital referral can cross the border, so ask your GP what that would mean for you.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for adenoidectomy by financial year at Launceston General Hospital, compared with Tasmania and Australiadays0631251882502016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Launceston General Hospital 97TAS 191Australia 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 periodLaunceston General Hospital (days)TAS (days)Australia (days)
2016–17687284
2017–18237495
2018–19126not published97
2019–2014017397
2020–21139not published207
2021–22not publishednot published111
2022–2339103128
2023–24172137148
2024–2597191144

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

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