Myringotomy waiting time at Albany Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Myringotomy at this public hospital, with the nearest alternatives that published a figure.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026

Median wait: 91 days2024–25 · 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 45 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Myringotomy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Albany Hospital	91 days	not published	11 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.

Bunbury HospitalWA · about 276 km away87 days
Rockingham General HospitalWA · about 360 km away88 days
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial HospitalWA · about 364 km away291 days
Fiona Stanley HospitalWA · about 378 km away114 days
St John of God Midland Public HospitalWA · about 388 km away10 days
Perth Children's HospitalWA · about 389 km away96 days
Sir Charles Gairdner HospitalWA · about 389 km away31 days
Joondalup Health Campus (Public)WA · about 413 km away44 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 500 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Albany 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	Albany Hospital (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	37	48	49
2012–13	56	51	49
2013–14	27	55	55
2014–15	81	65	56
2015–16	51	63	57
2016–17	not published	58	56
2017–18	not published	84	66
2018–19	58	86	62
2019–20	73	83	65
2020–21	not published	99	76
2021–22	66	85	72
2022–23	111	83	82
2023–24	92	91	88
2024–25	91	90	80

What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

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