Surgery Waits

Myringotomy waiting time at Karratha Health Campus

The median wait for myringotomy at this public hospital in the Pegs Creek area of Western Australia was 1 day 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
1 day2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
11 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 1 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.

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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
Karratha Health Campus1 daynot published11 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)90 days4.7%830 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)80 days5.6%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.

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 1000 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for myringotomy by financial year at Karratha Health Campus, compared with Western Australia and Australiadays02550751002011–122014–152017–182020–212023–242024–25Karratha Health Campus 1WA 90Australia 80
  • Karratha Health Campus
  • WA
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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 periodKarratha Health Campus (days)WA (days)Australia (days)
2011–12not reported for this period4849
2012–13not reported for this period5149
2013–14not reported for this period5555
2014–15not reported for this period6556
2015–16not reported for this period6357
2016–17not reported for this period5856
2017–18not reported for this period8466
2018–19not published8662
2019–20not published8365
2020–21not published9976
2021–22not published8572
2022–23not published8382
2023–24not published9188
2024–2519080

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

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