Surgery Waits

Mastoidectomy waiting time at Royal Hobart Hospital

The median wait for mastoidectomy at this public hospital in the Hobart area of Tasmania was 156 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
156 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 18 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 47 days in 2023–24 to 156 days in 2024–25 — up 232% — while the national median fell from 112 days to 99 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Launceston General Hospital, about 160 km away, at 104 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
Royal Hobart Hospital156 daysnot published14 surgeries
Tasmania (all public hospitals)not publishednot published28 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 Royal Hobart Hospital, compared with Tasmania and Australiadays0501001502002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Royal Hobart Hospital 156Australia 99
  • Royal Hobart Hospital
  • TAS
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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 Hobart Hospital (days)TAS (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not publishednot published83
2017–18not publishednot published95
2018–19not publishednot published106
2019–20not publishednot published104
2020–21not publishednot published119
2021–22not publishednot published98
2022–23not publishednot published162
2023–2447not published112
2024–25156not published99

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

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