Eardrum drainage waiting time at Cowra Health Service
Half of patients at Cowra Health Service waited 19 days or less for eardrum drainage in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Myringotomy". This public hospital is in the Cowra area of New South Wales.
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
- 19 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 17 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 80 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 4 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has fallen from 47 days in 2016–17 to 19 days in 2024–25 — down 60% — while the national median rose from 56 days to 80 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.
Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Myringotomy" 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
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cowra Health Service | 19 days | not published | 17 surgeries |
| New South Wales (all public hospitals) | 120 days | 10.3% | 1537 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 80 days | 5.6% | 5479 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 80 days marks the national median.
Orange Health Service, NSW · about 68 km away: 72 days
Dubbo Hospital, NSW · about 177 km away: 43 days
Nepean Hospital, NSW · about 187 km away: 66 days
Wagga Wagga Hospital, NSW · about 188 km away: 357 days
Campbelltown Hospital, NSW · about 197 km away: 260 days
Liverpool Hospital, NSW · about 207 km away: 83 days
Wollongong Hospital, NSW · about 212 km away: 92 days
The Children's Hospital at Westmead, NSW · about 212 km away: 95 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Cowra Health Service
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Cowra Health Service (days) | NSW (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011–12 | not reported for this period | 76 | 49 |
| 2012–13 | not reported for this period | 68 | 49 |
| 2013–14 | not reported for this period | 71 | 55 |
| 2014–15 | not reported for this period | 78 | 56 |
| 2015–16 | not reported for this period | 69 | 57 |
| 2016–17 | 47 | 73 | 56 |
| 2017–18 | 55 | 73 | 66 |
| 2018–19 | 29 | 84 | 62 |
| 2019–20 | 30 | 86 | 65 |
| 2020–21 | 23 | 98 | 76 |
| 2021–22 | 49 | 79 | 72 |
| 2022–23 | 21 | 92 | 82 |
| 2023–24 | 27 | 106 | 88 |
| 2024–25 | 19 | 120 | 80 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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