Surgery Waits

Eardrum repair waiting time at Liverpool Hospital

The median wait for eardrum repair — published by the source as "Myringoplasty/tympanoplasty" — at this public hospital in the Warwick Farm area of New South Wales was 349 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
349 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
20 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 58 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 41 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 337 days in 2011–12 to 349 days in 2024–25 — up 4% — while the national median rose from 105 days to 264 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital, about 8 km away, at 228 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Myringoplasty/tympanoplasty, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Liverpool Hospital349 daysnot published20 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)330 days27.9%416 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)264 days28.3%1627 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 264 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 myringoplasty/tympanoplasty by financial year at Liverpool Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays01252503755002011–122014–152017–182020–212023–242024–25Liverpool Hospital 349NSW 330Australia 264
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Myringoplasty/tympanoplasty, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodLiverpool Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2011–12337314105
2012–13336303123
2013–14357316128
2014–15340309137
2015–16337317173
2016–17315270170
2017–18304319195
2018–19276312200
2019–20342326214
2020–21308336292
2021–22not published334259
2022–23460365283
2023–24399343267
2024–25349330264

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

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