Eardrum drainage waiting time at Dubbo Hospital
Half of patients at Dubbo Hospital waited 43 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 Dubbo 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
- 43 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 19 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 14 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has fallen from 56 days in 2018–19 to 43 days in 2024–25 — down 23% — while the national median rose from 62 days to 80 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Cowra Health Service, about 177 km away, at 19 days.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dubbo Hospital | 43 days | not published | 19 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 128 km away: 72 days
Cowra Health Service, NSW · about 177 km away: 19 days
Tamworth Hospital, NSW · about 254 km away: 319 days
Nepean Hospital, NSW · about 258 km away: 66 days
Maitland Hospital, NSW · about 280 km away: 263 days
The Children's Hospital at Westmead, NSW · about 281 km away: 95 days
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital, NSW · about 284 km away: 65 days
Liverpool Hospital, NSW · about 285 km away: 83 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
- Dubbo Hospital
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Dubbo Hospital (days) | NSW (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011–12 | not published | 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 published | 69 | 57 |
| 2016–17 | not published | 73 | 56 |
| 2017–18 | not published | 73 | 66 |
| 2018–19 | 56 | 84 | 62 |
| 2019–20 | 79 | 86 | 65 |
| 2020–21 | 90 | 98 | 76 |
| 2021–22 | 90 | 79 | 72 |
| 2022–23 | 81 | 92 | 82 |
| 2023–24 | 99 | 106 | 88 |
| 2024–25 | 43 | 120 | 80 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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