Myringotomy waiting time at Sir Charles Gairdner 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: 31 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 12 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 8 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
Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital	31 days	not published	12 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)	90 days	4.7%	830 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.

Perth Children's HospitalWA · about 0 km away96 days
Fiona Stanley HospitalWA · about 12 km away114 days
St John of God Midland Public HospitalWA · about 20 km away10 days
Joondalup Health Campus (Public)WA · about 26 km away44 days
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial HospitalWA · about 27 km away291 days
Rockingham General HospitalWA · about 36 km away88 days
Bunbury HospitalWA · about 156 km away87 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital
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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	Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	24	48	49
2012–13	46	51	49
2013–14	not published	55	55
2014–15	not published	65	56
2015–16	not published	63	57
2016–17	not published	58	56
2017–18	not published	84	66
2018–19	not published	86	62
2019–20	not published	83	65
2020–21	83	99	76
2021–22	72	85	72
2022–23	not published	83	82
2023–24	32	91	88
2024–25	31	90	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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