Eardrum repair waiting time at Flinders Medical Centre

Median wait, long waits and volumes for eardrum repair — published by the source as “Myringoplasty/tympanoplasty” — at this public hospital in the Bedford Park area of South Australia, 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: 273 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 22 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 26 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 55 days in 2011–12 to 273 days in 2024–25 — up 396% — 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.

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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
Flinders Medical Centre	273 days	not published	22 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)	316 days	34.5%	110 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	264 days	28.3%	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.

Women's and Children's HospitalSA · about 13 km away335 days
The Queen Elizabeth HospitalSA · about 16 km away380 days
Modbury HospitalSA · about 24 km away487 days
Lyell McEwin HospitalSA · about 32 km away389 days
Gawler Health ServiceSA · about 51 km away284 days

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

How the wait has changed

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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 period	Flinders Medical Centre (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	55	63	105
2012–13	84	not published	123
2013–14	136	not published	128
2014–15	85	not published	137
2015–16	262	not published	173
2016–17	230	not published	170
2017–18	389	not published	195
2018–19	403	180	200
2019–20	346	330	214
2020–21	98	342	292
2021–22	333	336	259
2022–23	354	351	283
2023–24	201	154	267
2024–25	273	316	264

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

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