Tonsillectomy (with or without adenoidectomy) waiting time at Fiona Stanley Hospital

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: 197 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 178 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 43.8%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 55 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
Fiona Stanley Hospital	197 days	43.8%	178 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.

Fremantle Hospital and Health ServiceWA · about 9 km away393 days
Bentley Health ServiceWA · about 10 km away228 days
Perth Children's HospitalWA · about 12 km away134 days
Sir Charles Gairdner HospitalWA · about 12 km away46 days
Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street CampusWA · about 13 km away183 days
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial HospitalWA · about 18 km away328 days
Osborne Park HospitalWA · about 21 km away105 days
St John of God Midland Public HospitalWA · about 25 km away129 days

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

How the wait has changed

Fiona Stanley Hospital
WA
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	Fiona Stanley Hospital (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	not reported for this period	78	98
2012–13	not reported for this period	88	98
2013–14	not reported for this period	98	99
2014–15	124	118	124
2015–16	93	111	120
2016–17	238	129	97
2017–18	134	147	121
2018–19	160	211	125
2019–20	169	194	130
2020–21	358	295	253
2021–22	183	229	168
2022–23	576	287	174
2023–24	399	160	185
2024–25	197	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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