Myringotomy (without insertion of grommets) waiting time at Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville]

The median wait for myringotomy (without insertion of grommets) at this public hospital in the North Melbourne area of Victoria was 144 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: 144 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 25 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 21 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 19 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 28 days in 2016–17 to 144 days in 2024–25 — up 414% — while the national median rose from 51 days to 59 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne], about 2 km away, at 114 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Myringotomy (without insertion of grommets), 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville]	144 days	not published	25 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	60 days	5.4%	556 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	59 days	3.5%	1644 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 59 days marks the national median.

St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 2 km away114 days
The Royal Victorian Eye & Ear HospitalVIC · about 3 km away40 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 10 km away51 days
The Northern Hospital [Epping]VIC · about 17 km away64 days
University Hospital GeelongVIC · about 65 km away69 days
Goulburn Valley Health [Shepparton]VIC · about 164 km away23 days
Northeast Health WangarattaVIC · about 201 km away211 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Myringotomy (without insertion of grommets), by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville] (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	28	48	51
2017–18	44	42	49
2018–19	50	33	42
2019–20	72	40	48
2020–21	155	53	55
2021–22	118	55	66
2022–23	150	77	77
2023–24	161	52	69
2024–25	144	60	59

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

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