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Eardrum drainage waiting times in Western Australia

The median wait for eardrum drainage in Western Australia public hospitals was 90 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.

20 public hospitals in Western Australia 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.

5 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 Western Australia 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 Karratha Health Campus 1 day not published 11 surgeries
2 Derby Hospital 3 days not published 18 surgeries
3 St John of God Midland Public Hospital 10 days not published 12 surgeries
4 Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 31 days not published 12 surgeries
5 Joondalup Health Campus (Public) 44 days not published 47 surgeries
6 Hedland Health Campus 55 days not published 23 surgeries
7 Geraldton Hospital 57 days not published 20 surgeries
8 Bunbury Hospital 87 days 1.6% 122 surgeries
9 Rockingham General Hospital 88 days 0.0% 105 surgeries
10 Albany Hospital 91 days not published 11 surgeries
11 Kununurra Hospital 92 days not published 11 surgeries
12 Perth Children's Hospital 96 days 6.7% 330 surgeries
13 Broome Hospital 102 days not published 22 surgeries
14 Fiona Stanley Hospital 114 days not published 37 surgeries
15 Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 291 days not published 33 surgeries
unranked Esperance Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Fremantle Hospital and Health Service not published not published 5 surgeries
unranked Katanning Hospital not published not published 5 surgeries
unranked Osborne Park Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Peel Health Campus not published not published not published

Ranked by area in Western Australia: near the Perth CBD.

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The median wait for eardrum drainage in Western Australia public hospitals was 90 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

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

Attribution: Surgery Waits (https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/myringotomy/wa/), 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 Western Australia.