Surgery Waits

Mastoidectomy waiting time at Royal Darwin Hospital

The median wait for mastoidectomy at this public hospital in the Tiwi area of Northern Territory was 72 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
72 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
12 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 5 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 135 days in 2016–17 to 72 days in 2024–25 — down 47% — while the national median rose from 83 days to 99 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
Royal Darwin Hospital72 daysnot published12 surgeries
Northern Territory (all public hospitals)not publishednot published12 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)99 days13.6%656 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

No other public hospital within 1,000 km published a figure for this surgery in this period.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for mastoidectomy by financial year at Royal Darwin Hospital, compared with Northern Territory and Australiadays0751502253002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Royal Darwin Hospital 72Australia 99
  • Royal Darwin Hospital
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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 periodRoyal Darwin Hospital (days)NT (days)Australia (days)
2016–17135not published83
2017–1841not published95
2018–1983not published106
2019–2074not published104
2020–21258not published119
2021–22not publishednot published98
2022–23not publishednot published162
2023–24139not published112
2024–2572not published99

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

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