Tonsillectomy (with or without adenoidectomy) waiting time at Bentley Health Service

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Tonsillectomy (with or without adenoidectomy) at this public hospital, with the nearest alternatives that published a figure.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026

Median wait: 228 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 21 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 61 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

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
Bentley Health Service	228 days	not published	21 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)	183 days	33.3%	1581 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.

Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street CampusWA · about 8 km away183 days
Fiona Stanley HospitalWA · about 10 km away197 days
Perth Children's HospitalWA · about 11 km away134 days
Sir Charles Gairdner HospitalWA · about 11 km away46 days
St John of God Midland Public HospitalWA · about 14 km away129 days
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial HospitalWA · about 17 km away328 days
Osborne Park HospitalWA · about 18 km away105 days
Fremantle Hospital and Health ServiceWA · about 18 km away393 days

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

How the wait has changed

Bentley Health Service
WA
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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	Bentley Health Service (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	79	78	98
2012–13	82	88	98
2013–14	95	98	99
2014–15	125	118	124
2015–16	102	111	120
2016–17	35	129	97
2017–18	43	147	121
2018–19	50	211	125
2019–20	42	194	130
2020–21	61	295	253
2021–22	84	229	168
2022–23	161	287	174
2023–24	336	160	185
2024–25	228	183	182

What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

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