Eardrum repair waiting time at Hedland Health Campus
The median wait for eardrum repair — published by the source as "Myringoplasty/tympanoplasty" — at this public hospital in the South Hedland area of Western Australia was 148 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
- 148 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 58 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 10 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has risen from 53 days in 2012–13 to 148 days in 2024–25 — up 179% — while the national median rose from 123 days to 264 days.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hedland Health Campus | 148 days | not published | 14 surgeries |
| Western Australia (all public hospitals) | 162 days | 27.8% | 234 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 264 days | 28.3% | 1627 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
- Hedland Health Campus
- WA
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Hedland Health Campus (days) | WA (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011–12 | not published | 84 | 105 |
| 2012–13 | 53 | 87 | 123 |
| 2013–14 | not published | 81 | 128 |
| 2014–15 | not published | 85 | 137 |
| 2015–16 | not published | 90 | 173 |
| 2016–17 | not published | 99 | 170 |
| 2017–18 | not published | 169 | 195 |
| 2018–19 | not published | 147 | 200 |
| 2019–20 | not published | 128 | 214 |
| 2020–21 | not published | 189 | 292 |
| 2021–22 | not published | 138 | 259 |
| 2022–23 | not published | 176 | 283 |
| 2023–24 | not published | 155 | 267 |
| 2024–25 | 148 | 162 | 264 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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