Surgery Waits

Adenoidectomy waiting time at The Northern Hospital [Epping]

The median wait for adenoidectomy at this public hospital in the Lalor area of Victoria was 88 days in 2024–25.

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

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

Median wait
88 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
65 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
0.0%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 70 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 18 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 40 days in 2016–17 to 88 days in 2024–25 — up 120% — while the national median rose from 84 days to 144 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Monash Medical Centre [Clayton], about 33 km away, at 77 days. Here, 0.0% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 15.5%.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Adenoidectomy, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
The Northern Hospital [Epping]88 days0.0%65 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)140 days19.1%786 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)144 days15.5%3784 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 144 days marks the national median.

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

How the wait has changed

Median wait for adenoidectomy by financial year at The Northern Hospital [Epping], compared with Victoria and Australiadays0631251882502016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25The Northern Hospital [Epping] 88VIC 140Australia 144
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Adenoidectomy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodThe Northern Hospital [Epping] (days)VIC (days)Australia (days)
2016–17406284
2017–18778195
2018–19605997
2019–20977397
2020–21202152207
2021–22not published88111
2022–23246125128
2023–2467174148
2024–2588140144

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

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