Myringotomy waiting time at Launceston General Hospital

The median wait for myringotomy at this public hospital in the South Launceston area of Tasmania was 73 days in 2024–25.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026

These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.

Median wait: 73 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 33 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 80 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 34 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 62 days in 2011–12 to 73 days in 2024–25 — up 18% — while the national median rose from 49 days to 80 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Casey Hospital, about 408 km away, at 43 days.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Myringotomy" 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 Myringotomy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Launceston General Hospital	73 days	not published	33 surgeries
Tasmania (all public hospitals)	81 days	5.0%	140 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	69 days	4.7%	1610 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	80 days	5.6%	5479 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 80 days marks the national median.

Royal Hobart HospitalTAS · about 160 km away77 days
Latrobe Regional Hospital [Traralgon]VIC · about 363 km away73 days
West Gippsland Healthcare Group [Warragul]VIC · about 379 km away161 days
Frankston Public Surgical CentreVIC · about 404 km away90 days
Frankston HospitalVIC · about 405 km away113 days
Casey HospitalVIC · about 408 km away43 days
Angliss HospitalVIC · about 424 km away99 days
Monash Medical Centre [Clayton]VIC · about 426 km away56 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 500 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

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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Myringotomy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Launceston General Hospital (days)	TAS (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	62	91	49
2012–13	62	72	49
2013–14	48	72	55
2014–15	172	135	56
2015–16	106	105	57
2016–17	40	69	56
2017–18	24	64	66
2018–19	113	109	62
2019–20	100	149	65
2020–21	41	93	76
2021–22	83	80	72
2022–23	32	not published	82
2023–24	78	88	88
2024–25	73	81	80

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

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