Surgery Waits

Eardrum repair waiting time at Modbury Hospital

The median wait for eardrum repair — published by the source as "Myringoplasty/tympanoplasty" — at this public hospital in the Modbury area of South Australia was 487 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
487 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
16 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 55 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 355 days in 2018–19 to 487 days in 2024–25 — up 37% — while the national median rose from 200 days to 264 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Lyell McEwin Hospital, about 10 km away, at 389 days.

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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
Modbury Hospital487 daysnot published16 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)316 days34.5%110 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 Modbury Hospital, compared with South Australia and Australiadays01883755637502011–122014–152017–182020–212023–242024–25Modbury Hospital 487SA 316Australia 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 periodModbury Hospital (days)SA (days)Australia (days)
2011–12not published63105
2012–13not publishednot published123
2013–14not publishednot published128
2014–15not publishednot published137
2015–16not reported for this periodnot published173
2016–17not publishednot published170
2017–18not publishednot published195
2018–19355180200
2019–20132330214
2020–21531342292
2021–22337336259
2022–23not published351283
2023–24not published154267
2024–25487316264

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

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