Surgery Waits

Mastoidectomy waiting time at St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst]

The median wait for mastoidectomy at this public hospital in the Darlinghurst area of New South Wales was 90 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
90 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
17 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 9 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 109 days in 2016–17 to 90 days in 2024–25 — down 17% — while the national median rose from 83 days to 99 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, about 4 km away, at 12 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
St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst]90 daysnot published17 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)86 days14.1%184 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 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for mastoidectomy by financial year at St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst], compared with New South Wales and Australiadays01252503755002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst] 90NSW 86Australia 99
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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 periodSt Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst] (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–171099783
2017–18not published9995
2018–19320160106
2019–20not published125104
2020–21167150119
2021–22not published9898
2022–23441210162
2023–2415397112
2024–25908699

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

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