Myringotomy (without insertion of grommets) waiting times

Public hospital waiting times for Myringotomy (without insertion of grommets), nationally and by state.

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

Across Australia, the median wait for Myringotomy (without insertion of grommets) in public hospitals was 59 days in 2024–25, from 1644 surgeries. 3.5% of people waited more than 365 days. 21 public hospitals published a median wait for it.

State by state

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 59 days marks the national median.

Queensland50 days
Victoria60 days
Western Australia83 days
New South Wales86 days
Northern Territorynot published
South Australianot published

Myringotomy (without insertion of grommets) in public hospitals by state and territory, 2024–25. States with the same median share a rank. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Rank	State or territory	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
1	Queensland	50 days	0.3%	668 surgeries
2	Victoria	60 days	5.4%	556 surgeries
3	Western Australia	83 days	2.7%	222 surgeries
4	New South Wales	86 days	8.3%	109 surgeries
unranked	Northern Territory	not published	not published	70 surgeries
unranked	South Australia	not published	not published	19 surgeries

How the wait has changed

Australia
QLD
VIC
WA

View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Myringotomy (without insertion of grommets), by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Australia (days)	QLD (days)	VIC (days)	WA (days)
2016–17	51	79	48	not published
2017–18	49	not published	42	not published
2018–19	42	not published	33	not published
2019–20	48	50	40	57
2020–21	55	33	53	104
2021–22	66	49	55	76
2022–23	77	85	77	91
2023–24	69	70	52	88
2024–25	59	50	60	83

What is not here

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

The source calls this collection “elective surgery”. This site calls it planned surgery, because the surgery is planned in advance rather than optional — the methodology explains the wording.