Surgery Waits

Mastoidectomy waiting time at Perth Children's Hospital

The median wait for mastoidectomy at this public hospital in the Crawley area of Western Australia was 85 days in 2024–25.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released

These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.

Median wait
85 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
21 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 7 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 91 days in 2018–19 to 85 days in 2024–25 — down 7% — while the national median fell from 106 days to 99 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Joondalup Health Campus (Public), about 26 km away, at 77 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Mastoidectomy, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Perth Children's Hospital85 daysnot published21 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)not publishednot published85 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)99 days13.6%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.

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 1000 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for mastoidectomy by financial year at Perth Children's Hospital, compared with Western Australia and Australiadays0501001502002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Perth Children's Hospital 85Australia 99
  • Perth Children's Hospital
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Mastoidectomy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodPerth Children's Hospital (days)WA (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not reported for this periodnot published83
2017–18not reported for this periodnot published95
2018–1991not published106
2019–20not publishednot published104
2020–21not publishednot published119
2021–2285not published98
2022–2366not published162
2023–2467not published112
2024–2585not published99

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

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