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title: "Eardrum drainage near the Adelaide CBD"
description: "Public hospitals in or near the Adelaide CBD ranked by median wait for eardrum drainage, 2024–25. Shortest wait: 33 days."
url: "https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/myringotomy/near/adelaide-cbd/"
---

# Eardrum drainage near the Adelaide CBD

Near the Adelaide CBD, [The Queen Elizabeth Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/the-queen-elizabeth-hospital/myringotomy/) had the shortest median wait for eardrum drainage in 2024–25: **33 days** (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

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

3 public hospitals are ranked here by the median wait the source published for eardrum drainage, shortest first, and by nothing else. Every hospital listed is within 120 km of every other. 1 hospital sits just outside this area, within about 25 km of one of its hospitals, and is included because a referral can cross the line. The source publishes this surgery as "Myringotomy".

## Hospitals in or near the Adelaide CBD

Myringotomy at public hospitals in or near the Adelaide CBD, 2024–25, by median wait. Hospitals with the same median share a rank. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.

| Rank | Hospital | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Where |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | [The Queen Elizabeth Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/the-queen-elizabeth-hospital/myringotomy/) | 33 days | not published | Woodville South, SA. In this area. |
| 2 | [Royal Adelaide Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/royal-adelaide-hospital/myringotomy/) | 63 days | not published | Adelaide CBD, SA. In this area. |
| 3 | [Women's and Children's Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/womens-and-childrens-hospital/myringotomy/) (treats women and children) | 85 days | 1.8% | North Adelaide, SA. Outside this area, about 2 km from Royal Adelaide Hospital. |

This area covers Royal Adelaide Hospital and The Queen Elizabeth Hospital: the hospitals of the source's Local Hospital Network "Central Adelaide". Distances are straight lines between hospital locations, rounded to the nearest kilometre; they are not travel distances. A shorter median does not mean a hospital will see you sooner: your urgency category and your specialist decide that.

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> Near the Adelaide CBD, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital had the shortest median wait for eardrum drainage in 2024–25: 33 days (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

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Surgery Waits, "Eardrum drainage near the Adelaide CBD: hospital waits", 2024–25 data released 28 May 2026, https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/myringotomy/near/adelaide-cbd/, accessed 28 May 2026.
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Attribution: Surgery Waits ([https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/myringotomy/near/adelaide-cbd/](https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/myringotomy/near/adelaide-cbd/)), from Australian Institute of Health and Welfare MyHospitals data, CC BY 3.0 AU. Reference period 2024–25, released 28 May 2026.

## What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

See [every South Australia hospital for eardrum drainage](https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/myringotomy/sa/), or every hospital in [Central Adelaide](https://surgerywaits.au/health-service/central-adelaide/).

## Before you use these figures

Surgery Waits is not medical advice. It republishes official statistics about waiting times that have already happened, and it does not recommend any hospital, doctor or treatment. Your general practitioner (GP) and your treating specialist are the right people to help you decide what is appropriate for you.

**In an emergency call 000.**

Waiting-time figures: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare MyHospitals, licensed under [CC BY 3.0 AU](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/). Quarterly state figures: Queensland Health. Suburb and locality data: Australian Bureau of Statistics. Both licensed under [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Surgery Waits is not connected with any of these organisations.

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