Myringotomy waiting time at Casey Hospital

The median wait for myringotomy at this public hospital in the Berwick area of Victoria was 43 days in 2024–25.

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

These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.

Median wait: 43 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 143 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 1.4%2024–25 · released 28 May 2026

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 14 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 76 days in 2011–12 to 43 days in 2024–25 — down 43% — while the national median rose from 49 days to 80 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period. Here, 1.4% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 5.6%.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Myringotomy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Casey Hospital	43 days	1.4%	143 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	69 days	4.7%	1610 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.

Angliss HospitalVIC · about 17 km away99 days
Monash Medical Centre [Clayton]VIC · about 21 km away56 days
Frankston Public Surgical CentreVIC · about 22 km away90 days
Frankston HospitalVIC · about 22 km away113 days
Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin]VIC · about 28 km away69 days
Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 33 km away91 days
Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]VIC · about 41 km away293 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 42 km away314 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	Casey Hospital (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	76	49	49
2012–13	108	51	49
2013–14	132	61	55
2014–15	84	47	56
2015–16	90	52	57
2016–17	68	50	56
2017–18	94	60	66
2018–19	56	42	62
2019–20	39	42	65
2020–21	141	63	76
2021–22	58	57	72
2022–23	84	78	82
2023–24	80	79	88
2024–25	43	69	80

Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.

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