Surgery Waits

Eardrum repair waiting time at Hedland Health Campus

The median wait for eardrum repair — published by the source as "Myringoplasty/tympanoplasty" — at this public hospital in the South Hedland area of Western Australia was 148 days in 2024–25.

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

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

Median wait
148 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
14 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 58 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 10 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 53 days in 2012–13 to 148 days in 2024–25 — up 179% — while the national median rose from 123 days to 264 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Myringoplasty/tympanoplasty, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Hedland Health Campus148 daysnot published14 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)162 days27.8%234 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)264 days28.3%1627 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

No other public hospital within 1,000 km published a figure for this surgery in this period.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for myringoplasty/tympanoplasty by financial year at Hedland Health Campus, compared with Western Australia and Australiadays0751502253002011–122014–152017–182020–212023–242024–25Hedland Health Campus 148WA 162Australia 264
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Myringoplasty/tympanoplasty, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodHedland Health Campus (days)WA (days)Australia (days)
2011–12not published84105
2012–135387123
2013–14not published81128
2014–15not published85137
2015–16not published90173
2016–17not published99170
2017–18not published169195
2018–19not published147200
2019–20not published128214
2020–21not published189292
2021–22not published138259
2022–23not published176283
2023–24not published155267
2024–25148162264

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

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