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Eardrum drainage waiting times in Victoria

The median wait for eardrum drainage in Victoria public hospitals was 69 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The national median was 80 days. The source publishes this surgery as "Myringotomy".

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

30 public hospitals in Victoria reported eardrum drainage in 2024–25. They are ranked by their published median wait alone, shortest first.

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.

9 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 Victoria 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 Goulburn Valley Health [Shepparton] 23 days not published 14 surgeries
2 Albury Wodonga Health [Wodonga Campus] 31 days 1.0% 103 surgeries
3 Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital] 32 days not published 49 surgeries
4 The Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital 40 days 11.8% 119 surgeries
5 Casey Hospital 43 days 1.4% 143 surgeries
6 Monash Medical Centre [Clayton] 56 days 0.4% 229 surgeries
7 Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin] 69 days not published 32 surgeries
7 University Hospital Geelong 69 days 0.0% 177 surgeries
9 The Northern Hospital [Epping] 71 days 0.0% 114 surgeries
10 Latrobe Regional Hospital [Traralgon] 73 days not published 47 surgeries
11 Frankston Public Surgical Centre 90 days not published 10 surgeries
12 Box Hill Hospital 91 days not published 37 surgeries
13 Angliss Hospital 99 days 0.0% 66 surgeries
14 Frankston Hospital 113 days 2.4% 83 surgeries
15 St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne] 114 days not published 15 surgeries
16 Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville] 138 days 8.6% 140 surgeries
17 West Gippsland Healthcare Group [Warragul] 161 days not published 33 surgeries
18 Northeast Health Wangaratta 197 days not published 13 surgeries
19 Sunshine Hospital 249 days 15.7% 70 surgeries
20 Austin Hospital [Heidelberg] 293 days not published 29 surgeries
21 Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West] 314 days 25.4% 59 surgeries
unranked Blackburn Public Surgical Centre not published not published not published
unranked Broadmeadows Health Service not published not published not published
unranked Djerriwarrh Health Service [Bacchus Marsh] not published not published not published
unranked Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus] not published not published not published
unranked South West Healthcare [Warrnambool] not published not published 5 surgeries
unranked St Vincent's On the Park not published not published not published
unranked The Alfred not published not published not published
unranked The Kilmore & District Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Williamstown Hospital not published not published not published

Ranked by area in Victoria: near Box Hill · near Clayton · near Frankston · near Heidelberg.

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The median wait for eardrum drainage in Victoria public hospitals was 69 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

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Surgery Waits, "Eardrum drainage waiting times in Victoria", 2024–25 data released 28 May 2026, https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/myringotomy/vic/, accessed 28 May 2026.

Attribution: Surgery Waits (https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/myringotomy/vic/), 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.

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 Victoria.