Myringotomy waiting time at Nepean Hospital

The median wait for myringotomy at this public hospital in the Cambridge Park area of New South Wales was 66 days in 2024–25.

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: 66 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 144 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 0.7%2024–25 · released 28 May 2026

Half the people who had this surgery here waited less than the median, and half waited longer. Of the 80 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 28 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 67 days in 2011–12 to 66 days in 2024–25 — down 1% — while the national median rose from 49 days to 80 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital, about 38 km away, at 65 days. Here, 0.7% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 5.6%.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Myringotomy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Nepean Hospital	66 days	0.7%	144 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	120 days	10.3%	1537 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	80 days	5.6%	5479 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 80 days marks the national median.

The Children's Hospital at WestmeadNSW · about 26 km away95 days
Liverpool HospitalNSW · about 27 km away83 days
Auburn HospitalNSW · about 32 km away86 days
Bankstown Lidcombe HospitalNSW · about 34 km away102 days
Campbelltown HospitalNSW · about 36 km away260 days
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai HospitalNSW · about 38 km away65 days
Canterbury HospitalNSW · about 40 km away265 days
Royal North Shore HospitalNSW · about 45 km away90 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Myringotomy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Nepean Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	67	76	49
2012–13	62	68	49
2013–14	61	71	55
2014–15	86	78	56
2015–16	83	69	57
2016–17	89	73	56
2017–18	92	73	66
2018–19	126	84	62
2019–20	85	86	65
2020–21	76	98	76
2021–22	61	79	72
2022–23	91	92	82
2023–24	89	106	88
2024–25	66	120	80

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

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