Surgery Waits

Eardrum repair waiting time at Royal North Shore Hospital

The median wait for eardrum repair — published by the source as "Myringoplasty/tympanoplasty" — at this public hospital in the St Leonards area of New South Wales was 384 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
384 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 58 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 47 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 174 days in 2011–12 to 384 days in 2024–25 — up 121% — while the national median rose from 105 days to 264 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst], about 7 km away, at 284 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
Royal North Shore Hospital384 daysnot published19 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 Royal North Shore Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays01252503755002011–122014–152017–182020–212023–242024–25Royal North Shore Hospital 384NSW 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 periodRoyal North Shore Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2011–12174314105
2012–13370303123
2013–14354316128
2014–15310309137
2015–16317317173
2016–17333270170
2017–18369319195
2018–19364312200
2019–20355326214
2020–21363336292
2021–22396334259
2022–23427365283
2023–24383343267
2024–25384330264

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

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