Mastoidectomy waiting time at Nepean Hospital
The median wait for mastoidectomy at this public hospital in the Cambridge Park area of New South Wales was 54 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
- 54 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 11 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 3 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has fallen from 77 days in 2019–20 to 54 days in 2024–25 — down 30% — while the national median fell from 104 days to 99 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, about 46 km away, at 12 days.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nepean Hospital | 54 days | not published | 11 surgeries |
| New South Wales (all public hospitals) | 86 days | 14.1% | 184 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 99 days | 13.6% | 656 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Nepean Hospital
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Nepean Hospital (days) | NSW (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | not published | 97 | 83 |
| 2017–18 | not published | 99 | 95 |
| 2018–19 | not published | 160 | 106 |
| 2019–20 | 77 | 125 | 104 |
| 2020–21 | 73 | 150 | 119 |
| 2021–22 | not published | 98 | 98 |
| 2022–23 | not published | 210 | 162 |
| 2023–24 | not published | 97 | 112 |
| 2024–25 | 54 | 86 | 99 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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