Tonsillectomy waiting time at Port Lincoln Health Service

The median wait for tonsillectomy — published by the source as "Tonsillectomy (with or without adenoidectomy)" — at this public hospital in the Port Lincoln area of South Australia was 14 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: 14 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 12 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 2 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 62 days in 2011–12 to 14 days in 2024–25 — down 77% — while the national median rose from 98 days to 182 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.

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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 Lincoln Health Service	14 days	not published	12 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.

The Queen Elizabeth HospitalSA · about 246 km away75 days
Noarlunga HospitalSA · about 246 km away239 days
Flinders Medical CentreSA · about 250 km away330 days
Royal Adelaide HospitalSA · about 251 km away165 days
Women's and Children's HospitalSA · about 252 km away97 days
Lyell McEwin HospitalSA · about 257 km away120 days
Modbury HospitalSA · about 260 km away212 days
Port Pirie Regional Health ServiceSA · about 263 km away450 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 500 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

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	Port Lincoln Health Service (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	62	64	98
2012–13	64	69	98
2013–14	10	71	99
2014–15	10	76	124
2015–16	15	87	120
2016–17	14	67	97
2017–18	22	86	121
2018–19	28	84	125
2019–20	22	92	130
2020–21	19	98	253
2021–22	16	138	168
2022–23	22	118	174
2023–24	16	140	185
2024–25	14	111	182

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

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