Myringotomy waiting time at Northern Beaches Hospital

The median wait for myringotomy at this public hospital in the Frenchs Forest area of New South Wales was 281 days in 2024–25.

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: 281 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 47 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 73 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 40 days in 2019–20 to 281 days in 2024–25 — up 603% — while the national median rose from 65 days to 80 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Royal North Shore Hospital, about 9 km away, at 90 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Myringotomy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Northern Beaches Hospital	281 days	not published	47 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.

Royal North Shore HospitalNSW · about 9 km away90 days
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai HospitalNSW · about 12 km away65 days
Royal Prince Alfred HospitalNSW · about 16 km away46 days
Sydney Children's HospitalNSW · about 19 km away137 days
Prince of Wales HospitalNSW · about 19 km away307 days
Auburn HospitalNSW · about 22 km away86 days
Canterbury HospitalNSW · about 23 km away265 days
The Children's Hospital at WestmeadNSW · about 23 km away95 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Myringotomy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Northern Beaches Hospital (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	not reported for this period	73	56
2017–18	not reported for this period	73	66
2018–19	not published	84	62
2019–20	40	86	65
2020–21	68	98	76
2021–22	57	79	72
2022–23	97	92	82
2023–24	145	106	88
2024–25	281	120	80

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

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