Myringotomy waiting time at Fiona Stanley Hospital

The median wait for myringotomy at this public hospital in the Murdoch area of Western Australia was 114 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: 114 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 37 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 60 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 78 days in 2014–15 to 114 days in 2024–25 — up 46% — while the national median rose from 56 days to 80 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Perth Children's Hospital, about 12 km away, at 96 days.

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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
Fiona Stanley Hospital	114 days	not published	37 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 12 km away96 days
Sir Charles Gairdner HospitalWA · about 12 km away31 days
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial HospitalWA · about 18 km away291 days
St John of God Midland Public HospitalWA · about 25 km away10 days
Rockingham General HospitalWA · about 26 km away88 days
Joondalup Health Campus (Public)WA · about 38 km away44 days
Bunbury HospitalWA · about 145 km away87 days

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

How the wait has changed

Fiona Stanley 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	Fiona Stanley Hospital (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	not reported for this period	48	49
2012–13	not reported for this period	51	49
2013–14	not reported for this period	55	55
2014–15	78	65	56
2015–16	124	63	57
2016–17	132	58	56
2017–18	94	84	66
2018–19	79	86	62
2019–20	93	83	65
2020–21	160	99	76
2021–22	not published	85	72
2022–23	115	83	82
2023–24	141	91	88
2024–25	114	90	80

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

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