Myringotomy waiting time at Goulburn Valley Health [Shepparton]

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: 23 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 14 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 5 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
Goulburn Valley Health [Shepparton]	23 days	not published	14 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	69 days	4.7%	1610 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.

Northeast Health WangarattaVIC · about 81 km away197 days
Albury Wodonga Health [Wodonga Campus]VIC · about 135 km away31 days
The Northern Hospital [Epping]VIC · about 148 km away71 days
Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]VIC · about 158 km away293 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 158 km away314 days
Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 163 km away91 days
Sunshine HospitalVIC · about 164 km away249 days
Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville]VIC · about 164 km away138 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 Myringotomy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Goulburn Valley Health [Shepparton] (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	27	49	49
2012–13	47	51	49
2013–14	51	61	55
2014–15	105	47	56
2015–16	80	52	57
2016–17	51	50	56
2017–18	31	60	66
2018–19	28	42	62
2019–20	23	42	65
2020–21	27	63	76
2021–22	54	57	72
2022–23	34	78	82
2023–24	26	79	88
2024–25	23	69	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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