Surgery Waits

Mastoidectomy waiting time at Flinders Medical Centre

The median wait for mastoidectomy at this public hospital in the Bedford Park area of South Australia was 88 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
88 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
14 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 8 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 118 days in 2017–18 to 88 days in 2024–25 — down 25% — while the national median rose from 95 days to 99 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is University Hospital Geelong, about 623 km away, at 52 days.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Mastoidectomy" and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Mastoidectomy, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Flinders Medical Centre88 daysnot published14 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)not publishednot published37 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)128 days17.3%226 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.

Some of these hospitals are in another state — a public hospital referral can cross the border, so ask your GP what that would mean for you.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for mastoidectomy by financial year at Flinders Medical Centre, compared with South Australia and Australiadays0631251882502016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Flinders Medical Centre 88Australia 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 periodFlinders Medical Centre (days)SA (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not publishednot published83
2017–18118not published95
2018–19213not published106
2019–2091not published104
2020–21111not published119
2021–22not publishednot published98
2022–23126not published162
2023–24144not published112
2024–2588not published99

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

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