Myringotomy waiting time at Tamworth Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Myringotomy at this public hospital, with the nearest alternatives that published a figure.

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

Median wait: 319 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 30 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 80 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 79 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Myringotomy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Tamworth Hospital	319 days	not published	30 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.

Maitland HospitalNSW · about 193 km away263 days
John Hunter HospitalNSW · about 218 km away195 days
Coffs Harbour HospitalNSW · about 224 km away181 days
Belmont HospitalNSW · about 227 km away305 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	Tamworth Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	80	76	49
2012–13	not reported for this period	68	49
2013–14	not reported for this period	71	55
2014–15	not published	78	56
2015–16	not reported for this period	69	57
2016–17	not reported for this period	73	56
2017–18	not reported for this period	73	66
2018–19	not published	84	62
2019–20	167	86	65
2020–21	not published	98	76
2021–22	68	79	72
2022–23	55	92	82
2023–24	86	106	88
2024–25	319	120	80

What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

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