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title: "Mastoid surgery behind the ear near Clayton"
description: "Public hospitals in or near Clayton ranked by median wait for mastoid surgery behind the ear, 2024–25. Shortest wait: 114 days."
url: "https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/mastoidectomy/near/clayton/"
---

# Mastoid surgery behind the ear near Clayton

Near Clayton, [Monash Medical Centre \[Moorabbin\]](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/monash-medical-centre-moorabbin/mastoidectomy/) had the shortest median wait for mastoid surgery behind the ear in 2024–25: **114 days** (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

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

3 public hospitals are ranked here by the median wait the source published for mastoid surgery behind the ear, shortest first, and by nothing else. Every hospital listed is within 120 km of every other. 1 hospital sits just outside this area, within about 25 km of one of its hospitals, and is included because a referral can cross the line. 1 hospital has no current published median. It is listed last and never ranked; a figure the source withheld reads "not published". 1 children's hospital nearby is left out, because it treats only children. The source publishes this surgery as "Mastoidectomy".

## Hospitals in or near Clayton

Mastoidectomy at public hospitals in or near Clayton, 2024–25, by median wait. Hospitals with the same median share a rank. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.

| Rank | Hospital | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Where |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | [Monash Medical Centre \[Moorabbin\]](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/monash-medical-centre-moorabbin/mastoidectomy/) | 114 days | not published | Bentleigh East, VIC. In this area. |
| 2 | [Casey Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/casey-hospital/mastoidectomy/) | 126 days | not published | Berwick, VIC. In this area. |
| 3 | [The Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/the-royal-victorian-eye-ear-hospital/mastoidectomy/) | 127 days | not published | East Melbourne, VIC. Outside this area, about 15 km from Monash Medical Centre \[Moorabbin\]. |
| unranked | [Monash Medical Centre \[Clayton\]](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/monash-medical-centre-clayton/mastoidectomy/) | not published | not published | Clayton, VIC. In this area. |

This area covers Casey Hospital, Cranbourne Integrated Care Centre, Dandenong Hospital, Monash Medical Centre \[Clayton\], Monash Medical Centre \[Moorabbin\], Sandringham Monash and Victorian Heart Hospital: the hospitals of the source's Local Hospital Network "Monash Health". Distances are straight lines between hospital locations, rounded to the nearest kilometre; they are not travel distances. A shorter median does not mean a hospital will see you sooner: your urgency category and your specialist decide that.

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> Near Clayton, Monash Medical Centre \[Moorabbin\] had the shortest median wait for mastoid surgery behind the ear in 2024–25: 114 days (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

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Surgery Waits, "Mastoid surgery behind the ear near Clayton", 2024–25 data released 28 May 2026, https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/mastoidectomy/near/clayton/, accessed 28 May 2026.
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Attribution: Surgery Waits ([https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/mastoidectomy/near/clayton/](https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/mastoidectomy/near/clayton/)), 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.

See [every Victoria hospital for mastoid surgery behind the ear](https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/mastoidectomy/vic/), or every hospital in [Monash Health](https://surgerywaits.au/health-service/monash-health/).

## Before you use these figures

Surgery Waits is not medical advice. It republishes official statistics about waiting times that have already happened, and it does not recommend any hospital, doctor or treatment. Your general practitioner (GP) and your treating specialist are the right people to help you decide what is appropriate for you.

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Waiting-time figures: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare MyHospitals, licensed under [CC BY 3.0 AU](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/). Quarterly state figures: Queensland Health. Suburb and locality data: Australian Bureau of Statistics. Both licensed under [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Surgery Waits is not connected with any of these organisations.

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