Surgery Waits

Eardrum repair waiting time at Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus

The median wait for eardrum repair — published by the source as "Myringoplasty/tympanoplasty" — at this public hospital in the Perth area of Western Australia was 226 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
226 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
30 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 18 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 183 days in 2012–13 to 226 days in 2024–25 — up 23% — while the national median rose from 123 days to 264 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, about 5 km away, at 70 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
Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus226 daysnot published30 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 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for myringoplasty/tympanoplasty by financial year at Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus, compared with Western Australia and Australiadays0751502253002011–122014–152017–182020–212023–242024–25Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus 226WA 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 periodRoyal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus (days)WA (days)Australia (days)
2011–12not published84105
2012–1318387123
2013–14not published81128
2014–15not published85137
2015–169290173
2016–1713899170
2017–18126169195
2018–1985147200
2019–20not published128214
2020–21287189292
2021–22not published138259
2022–23213176283
2023–2479155267
2024–25226162264

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

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