Myringotomy (without insertion of grommets) waiting time at The Children's Hospital at Westmead

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Myringotomy (without insertion of grommets) 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: 111 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 21 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 17 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 (without insertion of grommets), 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
The Children's Hospital at Westmead	111 days	not published	17 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	86 days	8.3%	109 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	60 days	5.4%	556 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	59 days	3.5%	1644 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 59 days marks the national median.

Nepean HospitalNSW · about 26 km away58 days
Maitland HospitalNSW · about 130 km away282 days
Albury Wodonga Health [Wodonga Campus]VIC · about 456 km away31 days
Northeast Health WangarattaVIC · about 512 km away211 days
Goulburn Valley Health [Shepparton]VIC · about 583 km away23 days
The Northern Hospital [Epping]VIC · about 689 km away64 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 693 km away51 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 702 km away114 days

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.

Some of these hospitals are in another state. Public hospital referrals can cross state borders. Ask your general practitioner (GP) what that would mean for you — see can my GP refer me to a different hospital?

How the wait has changed

The Children's Hospital at Westmead
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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Myringotomy (without insertion of grommets), by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	The Children's Hospital at Westmead (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	62	71	51
2017–18	48	78	49
2018–19	not published	77	42
2019–20	not published	77	48
2020–21	not published	120	55
2021–22	not published	not published	66
2022–23	not published	not published	77
2023–24	111	97	69
2024–25	111	86	59

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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