Myringotomy waiting times in Northern Territory

Public hospitals in Northern Territory ranked by their median wait for myringotomy.

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

5 public hospitals in Northern Territory reported myringotomy in 2024–25. The state median was not published; the national median was 80 days.

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2 hospitals have no published median wait for this surgery in this period. They are listed last, marked "not published", and are never ranked.

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

Myringotomy in Northern Territory public hospitals, 2024–25. Hospitals with the same median share a rank and the next rank is skipped. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Rank	Hospital	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
1	Royal Darwin Hospital	52 days	not published	41 surgeries
2	Alice Springs Hospital	61 days	not published	14 surgeries
3	Palmerston Regional Hospital	110 days	not published	24 surgeries
unranked	Gove Hospital	not published	not published	7 surgeries
unranked	Katherine Hospital	not published	not published	9 surgeries

What is not here

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

Waiting times differ across state borders, and a referral can cross one — read what that means. Compare with every other state, or see every surgery reported in Northern Territory.