Surgery Waits

Eardrum repair waiting time at Kununurra Hospital

The median wait for eardrum repair — published by the source as "Myringoplasty/tympanoplasty" — at this public hospital in the Kununurra area of Western Australia was 215 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
215 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
10 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 17 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 96 days in 2011–12 to 215 days in 2024–25 — up 124% — while the national median rose from 105 days to 264 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Myringoplasty/tympanoplasty" and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Myringoplasty/tympanoplasty, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Kununurra Hospital215 daysnot published10 surgeries
Northern Territory (all public hospitals)377 days52.8%108 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

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 264 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.

Some of these hospitals are in another state — a public hospital referral can cross the border, so ask your GP what that would mean for you.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for myringoplasty/tympanoplasty by financial year at Kununurra Hospital, compared with Western Australia and Australiadays0751502253002011–122014–152017–182020–212023–242024–25Kununurra Hospital 215WA 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 periodKununurra Hospital (days)WA (days)Australia (days)
2011–129684105
2012–134287123
2013–148181128
2014–1515985137
2015–1620990173
2016–1714799170
2017–18172169195
2018–19185147200
2019–20169128214
2020–21189189292
2021–22192138259
2022–23249176283
2023–24not published155267
2024–25215162264

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

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