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Mastoid surgery behind the ear waiting times in New South Wales

The median wait for mastoid surgery behind the ear in New South Wales public hospitals was 86 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The national median was 99 days. The source publishes this surgery as "Mastoidectomy".

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

26 public hospitals in New South Wales reported mastoid surgery behind the ear in 2024–25. They are ranked by their published median wait alone, shortest first.

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

20 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 99 days marks the national median.

Mastoidectomy 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 Royal Prince Alfred Hospital 12 days not published 10 surgeries
2 Nepean Hospital 54 days not published 11 surgeries
3 Liverpool Hospital 71 days not published 26 surgeries
4 St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst] 90 days not published 17 surgeries
5 Sutherland Hospital 95 days not published 16 surgeries
6 Westmead Hospital 299 days not published 18 surgeries
unranked Auburn Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Belmont Hospital not published not published 7 surgeries
unranked Canterbury Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Coffs Harbour Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Concord Repatriation Hospital not published not published 7 surgeries
unranked Dubbo Hospital not published not published 5 surgeries
unranked Gosford Hospital not published not published 7 surgeries
unranked John Hunter Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Kurri Kurri Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Lismore Base Hospital not published not published 7 surgeries
unranked Orange Health Service not published not published not published
unranked Prince of Wales Hospital not published not published 5 surgeries
unranked Royal North Shore Hospital not published not published not published
unranked St George Hospital NSW not published not published not published
unranked Sydney Children's Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Tamworth Hospital not published not published not published
unranked The Children's Hospital at Westmead not published not published 6 surgeries
unranked Tweed Valley Hospital not published not published 7 surgeries
unranked Wagga Wagga Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Wollongong Hospital not published not published 8 surgeries
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The median wait for mastoid surgery behind the ear in New South Wales public hospitals was 86 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

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Surgery Waits, "Mastoid surgery behind the ear waiting times in NSW", 2024–25 data released 28 May 2026, https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/mastoidectomy/nsw/, accessed 28 May 2026.

Attribution: Surgery Waits (https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/mastoidectomy/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.