Tonsillectomy waiting time at Tweed Valley Hospital

The median wait for tonsillectomy — published by the source as "Tonsillectomy (with or without adenoidectomy)" — at this public hospital in the Tweed Heads area of New South Wales was 109 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: 109 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 94 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 12.8%2024–25 · released 28 May 2026

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 28 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 112 days in 2011–12 to 109 days in 2024–25 — down 3% — while the national median rose from 98 days to 182 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Murwillumbah District Hospital, about 22 km away, at 99 days. Here, 12.8% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 17.0%.

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
Tweed Valley Hospital	109 days	12.8%	94 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	322 days	21.2%	4896 surgeries
Queensland (all public hospitals)	115 days	4.9%	3023 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.

Murwillumbah District HospitalNSW · about 22 km away99 days
Gold Coast University HospitalQLD · about 29 km away266 days
Logan HospitalQLD · about 69 km away278 days
Lismore Base HospitalNSW · about 75 km away259 days
Princess Alexandra HospitalQLD · about 91 km away56 days
Mater Adult HospitalQLD · about 92 km away293 days
Queensland Children's HospitalQLD · about 92 km away80 days
Surgical Treatment and Rehabilitation ServiceQLD · about 96 km away339 days

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

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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	Tweed Valley Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	112	221	98
2012–13	84	258	98
2013–14	89	233	99
2014–15	140	260	124
2015–16	141	253	120
2016–17	74	265	97
2017–18	74	293	121
2018–19	96	303	125
2019–20	94	287	130
2020–21	229	326	253
2021–22	87	303	168
2022–23	109	306	174
2023–24	133	309	185
2024–25	109	322	182

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

All surgery at Tweed Valley Hospital · Tonsillectomy across Australia · Tonsillectomy in New South Wales