Myringotomy waiting time at Geraldton Hospital

The median wait for myringotomy at this public hospital in the Beachlands area of Western Australia was 57 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: 57 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 20 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 22 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 61 days in 2011–12 to 57 days in 2024–25 — down 7% — while the national median rose from 49 days to 80 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Joondalup Health Campus (Public), about 347 km away, at 44 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
Geraldton Hospital	57 days	not published	20 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.

Joondalup Health Campus (Public)WA · about 347 km away44 days
St John of God Midland Public HospitalWA · about 371 km away10 days
Sir Charles Gairdner HospitalWA · about 373 km away31 days
Perth Children's HospitalWA · about 373 km away96 days
Fiona Stanley HospitalWA · about 384 km away114 days
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial HospitalWA · about 396 km away291 days
Rockingham General HospitalWA · about 406 km away88 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 500 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Geraldton 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	Geraldton Hospital (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	61	48	49
2012–13	47	51	49
2013–14	57	55	55
2014–15	26	65	56
2015–16	18	63	57
2016–17	25	58	56
2017–18	49	84	66
2018–19	60	86	62
2019–20	59	83	65
2020–21	142	99	76
2021–22	167	85	72
2022–23	157	83	82
2023–24	210	91	88
2024–25	57	90	80

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

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