Surgery Waits

Tonsillectomy waiting time at Broken Hill Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for tonsillectomy — published by the source as "Tonsillectomy (with or without adenoidectomy)" — at this public hospital in the Silverton area of New South Wales, with the nearest alternatives that published a figure.

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

The source did not publish a median wait for this surgery at this hospital in 2024–25. Reported data did not meet the criteria to calculate this indicator. The hospital is shown here unranked rather than ranked on a number that does not exist.

These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.

Median wait
not published2024–25 · released 28 May 2026 — Reported data did not meet the criteria to calculate this indicator.
Surgeries completed
not published2024–25 · released 28 May 2026 — too few
Waited more than 365 days
not published2024–25 · released 28 May 2026 — Reported data did not meet the criteria to calculate this indicator.

This hospital is not ranked for this surgery.

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
Broken Hill Hospitalnot publishednot publishednot published
New South Wales (all public hospitals)322 days21.2%4896 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)182 days17.0%16182 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Broken Hill Hospital did not publish a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, so there is no list of nearer alternatives to compare it against.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for tonsillectomy (with or without adenoidectomy) by financial year at Broken Hill Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays01002003004002011–122014–152017–182020–212023–242024–25Broken Hill Hospital 118NSW 322Australia 182
  • Broken Hill Hospital
  • NSW
  • 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 periodBroken Hill Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2011–1219422198
2012–1311025898
2013–145523399
2014–15247260124
2015–16269253120
2016–1716726597
2017–18227293121
2018–19340303125
2019–20303287130
2020–21266326253
2021–22not published303168
2022–23309306174
2023–24118309185
2024–25not published322182

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

All surgery at Broken Hill Hospital · Tonsillectomy across Australia · Tonsillectomy in New South Wales