Myringotomy waiting time at Royal Adelaide Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Myringotomy at this public hospital, with the nearest alternatives that published a figure.

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

Median wait: 63 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 13 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 80 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 25 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Myringotomy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Royal Adelaide Hospital	63 days	not published	13 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)	77 days	2.2%	599 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	80 days	5.6%	5479 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

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

Women's and Children's HospitalSA · about 2 km away85 days
The Queen Elizabeth HospitalSA · about 6 km away33 days
Flinders Medical CentreSA · about 11 km away72 days
Modbury HospitalSA · about 13 km away64 days
Lyell McEwin HospitalSA · about 21 km away112 days
Gawler Health ServiceSA · about 39 km away40 days
Renmark Paringa District HospitalSA · about 215 km away30 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, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Royal Adelaide Hospital (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	not published	43	49
2012–13	not reported for this period	42	49
2013–14	not reported for this period	35	55
2014–15	57	56	56
2015–16	47	57	57
2016–17	not published	48	56
2017–18	not published	63	66
2018–19	108	54	62
2019–20	86	61	65
2020–21	97	70	76
2021–22	not published	74	72
2022–23	not published	70	82
2023–24	67	84	88
2024–25	63	77	80

What is not here

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

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