Mastoid surgery behind the ear waiting time at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
Half of patients at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital waited 12 days or less for mastoid surgery behind the ear in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Mastoidectomy". This public hospital is in the Camperdown area of New South Wales.
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
- 12 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 10 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 1 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has fallen from 195 days in 2018–19 to 12 days in 2024–25 — down 94% — while the national median fell from 106 days to 99 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Royal Prince Alfred Hospital | 12 days | not published | 10 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
Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 99 days marks the national median.
St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst], NSW · about 4 km away: 90 days
Sutherland Hospital, NSW · about 18 km away: 95 days
Westmead Hospital, NSW · about 20 km away: 299 days
Liverpool Hospital, NSW · about 24 km away: 71 days
Nepean Hospital, NSW · about 46 km away: 54 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Royal Prince Alfred Hospital (days) | NSW (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | not published | 97 | 83 |
| 2017–18 | not published | 99 | 95 |
| 2018–19 | 195 | 160 | 106 |
| 2019–20 | 134 | 125 | 104 |
| 2020–21 | not published | 150 | 119 |
| 2021–22 | not published | 98 | 98 |
| 2022–23 | not published | 210 | 162 |
| 2023–24 | not published | 97 | 112 |
| 2024–25 | 12 | 86 | 99 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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