Tonsillectomy waiting time at Port Pirie Regional Health Service

The median wait for tonsillectomy — published by the source as "Tonsillectomy (with or without adenoidectomy)" — at this public hospital in the Port Pirie area of South Australia was 450 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: 450 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 114 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 113 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 55 days in 2011–12 to 450 days in 2024–25 — up 718% — while the national median rose from 98 days to 182 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Port Augusta Hospital and Regional Health Services, about 77 km away, at 167 days.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Tonsillectomy (with or without 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 Tonsillectomy (with or without adenoidectomy), 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Port Pirie Regional Health Service	450 days	not published	25 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.

Port Augusta Hospital and Regional Health ServicesSA · about 77 km away167 days
Gawler Health ServiceSA · about 172 km away267 days
Lyell McEwin HospitalSA · about 185 km away120 days
Modbury HospitalSA · about 195 km away212 days
The Queen Elizabeth HospitalSA · about 196 km away75 days
Women's and Children's HospitalSA · about 200 km away97 days
Royal Adelaide HospitalSA · about 201 km away165 days
Flinders Medical CentreSA · about 212 km away330 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Port Pirie Regional Health Service
SA
Australia

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	Port Pirie Regional Health Service (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	55	64	98
2012–13	139	69	98
2013–14	111	71	99
2014–15	83	76	124
2015–16	83	87	120
2016–17	not published	67	97
2017–18	162	86	121
2018–19	169	84	125
2019–20	142	92	130
2020–21	187	98	253
2021–22	168	138	168
2022–23	338	118	174
2023–24	389	140	185
2024–25	450	111	182

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

All surgery at Port Pirie Regional Health Service · Tonsillectomy across Australia · Tonsillectomy in South Australia