Surgery Waits

Eardrum repair waiting time at Prince of Wales Hospital

The median wait for eardrum repair — published by the source as "Myringoplasty/tympanoplasty" — at this public hospital in the Randwick area of New South Wales was 362 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
362 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
22 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 58 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 43 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 359 days in 2011–12 to 362 days in 2024–25 — up 1% — while the national median rose from 105 days to 264 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst], about 5 km away, at 284 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Myringoplasty/tympanoplasty, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Prince of Wales Hospital362 daysnot published22 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)330 days27.9%416 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)264 days28.3%1627 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

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

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

How the wait has changed

Median wait for myringoplasty/tympanoplasty by financial year at Prince of Wales Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays01883755637502011–122014–152017–182020–212023–242024–25Prince of Wales Hospital 362NSW 330Australia 264
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Myringoplasty/tympanoplasty, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodPrince of Wales Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2011–12359314105
2012–13361303123
2013–14351316128
2014–15314309137
2015–16363317173
2016–17356270170
2017–18356319195
2018–19366312200
2019–20367326214
2020–21399336292
2021–22504334259
2022–23465365283
2023–24397343267
2024–25362330264

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

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