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Eardrum repair waiting times in New South Wales

The median wait for eardrum repair in New South Wales public hospitals was 330 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The national median was 264 days. The source publishes this surgery as "Myringoplasty/tympanoplasty".

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026.

37 public hospitals in New South Wales reported eardrum repair in 2024–25. They are ranked by their published median wait alone, shortest first.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Myringoplasty/tympanoplasty" and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.

18 hospitals have no published median wait for this surgery in this period. They are listed last, marked "not published", and are never ranked.

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 264 days marks the national median.

Myringoplasty/tympanoplasty in New South Wales public hospitals, 2024–25. Hospitals with the same median share a rank and the next rank is skipped. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Rank Hospital Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
1 Gosford Hospital 89 days not published 18 surgeries
2 Royal Prince Alfred Hospital 161 days not published 27 surgeries
3 Nepean Hospital 209 days not published 32 surgeries
4 Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital 228 days not published 12 surgeries
5 Dubbo Hospital 235 days not published 17 surgeries
6 Concord Repatriation Hospital 255 days not published 11 surgeries
7 Orange Health Service 258 days not published 18 surgeries
8 St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst] 284 days not published 12 surgeries
9 Auburn Hospital 319 days not published 16 surgeries
10 Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital 342 days not published 20 surgeries
11 Belmont Hospital 347 days not published 14 surgeries
11 Westmead Hospital 347 days not published 25 surgeries
13 Liverpool Hospital 349 days not published 20 surgeries
14 Wollongong Hospital 357 days not published 22 surgeries
15 Prince of Wales Hospital 362 days not published 22 surgeries
15 Wagga Wagga Hospital 362 days not published 10 surgeries
17 Royal North Shore Hospital 384 days not published 19 surgeries
18 John Hunter Hospital 481 days not published 14 surgeries
19 Lismore Base Hospital 736 days not published 10 surgeries
unranked Bathurst Base Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Broken Hill Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Campbelltown Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Canterbury Hospital not published not published 9 surgeries
unranked Coffs Harbour Hospital not published not published 8 surgeries
unranked Cowra Health Service not published not published not published
unranked Hawkesbury Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Kurri Kurri Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Lachlan Health Service - Forbes not published not published not published
unranked Maitland Hospital not published not published 6 surgeries
unranked Murwillumbah District Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Northern Beaches Hospital not published not published 5 surgeries
unranked St George Hospital NSW not published not published not published
unranked Sutherland Hospital not published not published 6 surgeries
unranked Sydney Children's Hospital not published not published 5 surgeries
unranked Tamworth Hospital not published not published 7 surgeries
unranked The Children's Hospital at Westmead not published not published 8 surgeries
unranked Tweed Valley Hospital not published not published 8 surgeries

Ranked by area in New South Wales: near Camperdown · near Liverpool · near St Leonards · near Westmead.

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The median wait for eardrum repair in New South Wales public hospitals was 330 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

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Surgery Waits, "Eardrum repair waiting times in New South Wales", 2024–25 data released 28 May 2026, https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/eardrum-repair/nsw/, accessed 28 May 2026.

Attribution: Surgery Waits (https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/eardrum-repair/nsw/), from Australian Institute of Health and Welfare MyHospitals data, CC BY 3.0 AU. Reference period 2024–25, released 28 May 2026.

What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

Waiting times differ across state borders, and a referral can cross one — read what that means. Compare with every other state, or see every surgery reported in New South Wales.