Surgery Waits

Mastoidectomy waiting time at Liverpool Hospital

The median wait for mastoidectomy at this public hospital in the Warwick Farm area of New South Wales was 71 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
71 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
26 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 25 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 105 days in 2016–17 to 71 days in 2024–25 — down 32% — while the national median rose from 83 days to 99 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, about 24 km away, at 12 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Mastoidectomy, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Liverpool Hospital71 daysnot published26 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)86 days14.1%184 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)99 days13.6%656 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 99 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 mastoidectomy by financial year at Liverpool Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays0631251882502016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Liverpool Hospital 71NSW 86Australia 99
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Mastoidectomy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodLiverpool Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–171059783
2017–181269995
2018–1972160106
2019–20114125104
2020–21129150119
2021–22649898
2022–23152210162
2023–245997112
2024–25718699

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

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