Surgery Waits

Adenoidectomy waiting time at Orange Health Service

The median wait for adenoidectomy at this public hospital in the Spring Creek area of New South Wales was 117 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
117 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
47 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 24 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 75 days in 2016–17 to 117 days in 2024–25 — up 56% — while the national median rose from 84 days to 144 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Cowra Health Service, about 68 km away, at 76 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
Orange Health Service117 daysnot published47 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)274 days18.3%1412 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 Orange Health Service, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays01002003004002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Orange Health Service 117NSW 274Australia 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 periodOrange Health Service (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–177522484
2017–187323595
2018–198826797
2019–2013427397
2020–21322314207
2021–2267245111
2022–23308269128
2023–24162293148
2024–25117274144

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

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