Surgery Waits

Eardrum repair waiting time at Joondalup Health Campus (Public)

The median wait for eardrum repair — published by the source as "Myringoplasty/tympanoplasty" — at this public hospital in the Joondalup area of Western Australia was 66 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
66 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
27 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 1 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 93 days in 2013–14 to 66 days in 2024–25 — down 29% — while the national median rose from 128 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
Joondalup Health Campus (Public)66 daysnot published27 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 Joondalup Health Campus (Public), compared with Western Australia and Australiadays01002003004002011–122014–152017–182020–212023–242024–25Joondalup Health Campus (Public) 66WA 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 periodJoondalup Health Campus (Public) (days)WA (days)Australia (days)
2011–12not published84105
2012–13not published87123
2013–149381128
2014–15not published85137
2015–16not published90173
2016–17not published99170
2017–18not published169195
2018–19not published147200
2019–20377128214
2020–2172189292
2021–2264138259
2022–23113176283
2023–2491155267
2024–2566162264

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

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