Myringotomy waiting time at Perth Children's Hospital

The median wait for myringotomy at this public hospital in the Crawley area of Western Australia was 96 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: 96 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 330 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 6.7%2024–25 · released 28 May 2026

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 51 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 91 days in 2018–19 to 96 days in 2024–25 — up 5% — while the national median rose from 62 days to 80 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, about 0 km away, at 31 days. Here, 6.7% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 5.6%.

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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
Perth Children's Hospital	96 days	6.7%	330 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.

Sir Charles Gairdner HospitalWA · about 0 km away31 days
Fiona Stanley HospitalWA · about 12 km away114 days
St John of God Midland Public HospitalWA · about 20 km away10 days
Joondalup Health Campus (Public)WA · about 26 km away44 days
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial HospitalWA · about 26 km away291 days
Rockingham General HospitalWA · about 36 km away88 days
Bunbury HospitalWA · about 156 km away87 days

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

How the wait has changed

Perth Children's 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	Perth Children's 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	not reported for this period	65	56
2015–16	not reported for this period	63	57
2016–17	not reported for this period	58	56
2017–18	not published	84	66
2018–19	91	86	62
2019–20	84	83	65
2020–21	116	99	76
2021–22	91	85	72
2022–23	83	83	82
2023–24	92	91	88
2024–25	96	90	80

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

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