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Eardrum repair at Women's and Children's Hospital

Women's and Children's Hospital is a public hospital in the North Adelaide area, South Australia. This page shows its waiting times for Eardrum repair in 2024–25, beside the figures for South Australia and for Australia.

The source publishes this surgery as "Myringoplasty/tympanoplasty".

Figures for this hospital

Each tile shows one figure for Eardrum repair at Women's and Children's Hospital.

A rank compares this hospital with every public hospital in Australia that published the same figure for the same period. The page shows a rank only on a current published figure. It never ranks a withheld or unreported figure. It also never ranks a figure from an earlier period.

Median wait, Women's and Children's Hospital
335 days2024–25, released 19 August 2026

Rank35th of 58 nationally

Waiting more than 365 days, Women's and Children's Hospital
not published: the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare did not publish a figure2024–25, released 19 August 2026
Patients treated, Women's and Children's Hospital
14 surgeries2024–25, released 19 August 2026

Compared with the state and Australia

The state and national rows cover every public hospital that reported Eardrum repair. They are never ranked.

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Eardrum repair: Women's and Children's Hospital, South Australia and Australia2024–25, released 19 August 2026
Who the figures coverMedian waitWaiting more than 365 daysPatients treated
Women's and Children's Hospital335 daysnot published: the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare did not publish a figure14 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)316 days34.5%110 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)264 days28.3%1,627 surgeries

Shorter waits nearby

Women's and Children's Hospital has 8 public hospitals on its list of nearby public hospitals. No hospital on that list published a shorter median wait for Eardrum repair in 2024–25.

How this hospital's wait has changed

The median wait for Eardrum repair at Women's and Children's Hospital has risen from 149 days in 2011–12 to 335 days in 2024–25. The earlier figure is from 2011–12, released 19 August 2026, and the latest is from 2024–25, released 19 August 2026.

Each chart shows the median wait for each year the source published it. A year with no published figure is a gap in the line, and the table under the chart gives the reason.

Eardrum repair: median wait by financial year, Women's and Children's Hospital, South Australia and Australia2011–12 to 2024–25, released 19 August 2026
01002003004002012–132015–162018–192021–222024–25
  • Women's and Children's Hospital
  • South Australia
  • Australia
  • No figure published for this year. The table gives the reason.
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Eardrum repair: median wait by financial year, Women's and Children's Hospital, South Australia and Australia2011–12 to 2024–25, released 19 August 2026
Financial yearWomen's and Children's HospitalSouth AustraliaAustralia
2011–12149 days63 days105 days
2012–13332 daysnot published: the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare did not publish a figure123 days
2013–14298 daysnot published: the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare did not publish a figure128 days
2014–15240 daysnot published: the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare did not publish a figure137 days
2015–16338 daysnot published: the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare did not publish a figure173 days
2016–1774 daysnot published: the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare did not publish a figure170 days
2017–18326 daysnot published: the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare did not publish a figure195 days
2018–1987 days180 days200 days
2019–20342 days330 days214 days
2020–21347 days342 days292 days
2021–22362 days336 days259 days
2022–23362 days351 days283 days
2023–24not published: the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare did not publish a figure154 days267 days
2024–25335 days316 days264 days

All planned surgery at Women's and Children's Hospital

Eardrum repair at every public hospital in Australia

Eardrum repair in South Australia

What this page leaves out

Private hospitals are excluded. This page covers public hospitals only, so it shows no private hospital.

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Where this data comes from

  • Dataset on publicdata.au
    Elective surgery waiting times by hospital and urgency category, Australia
    Publisher
    Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    Version
    3 October 2026
    Data released
    19 August 2026
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    How to cite this data
    Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australian Government, MyHospitals Data API, elective surgery waiting times data extract, sourced 3 October 2026, https://myhospitalsapi.aihw.gov.au/, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/au-elective-surgery-waiting-times/v/2026-10-03/
  • Dataset on publicdata.au
    Elective surgery waiting times by hospital and intended procedure, Australia
    Publisher
    Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    Version
    20 October 2026
    Data released
    19 August 2026
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    How to cite this data
    Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australian Government, MyHospitals Data API, elective surgery waiting times data extract, sourced 19 October 2026, https://myhospitalsapi.aihw.gov.au/, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/au-elective-surgery-waiting-times-by-procedure/v/2026-10-20/
  • Dataset on publicdata.au
    Elective surgery waiting times by hospital and surgical specialty, Australia
    Publisher
    Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    Version
    20 October 2026
    Data released
    19 August 2026
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    How to cite this data
    Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australian Government, MyHospitals Data API, elective surgery waiting times data extract, sourced 19 October 2026, https://myhospitalsapi.aihw.gov.au/, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/au-elective-surgery-waiting-times-by-specialty/v/2026-10-20/
  • Dataset on publicdata.au
    Hospitals, Local Hospital Networks and Primary Health Networks in MyHospitals, Australia
    Publisher
    Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    Version
    3 October 2026
    Data released
    19 August 2026
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    How to cite this data
    Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australian Government, MyHospitals Data API, mapping details extract, sourced 3 October 2026, https://myhospitalsapi.aihw.gov.au/, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/au-hospitals-myhospitals/v/2026-10-03/
  • Dataset on publicdata.au
    Reported measures and their codes in MyHospitals, Australia
    Publisher
    Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    Version
    27 October 2026
    Data released
    The publisher gives no release date for this dataset.
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    How to cite this data
    Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australian Government, MyHospitals Data API, reported measures, sourced 26 October 2026, https://myhospitalsapi.aihw.gov.au/, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/au-myhospitals-reported-measures/v/2026-10-27/
  • Dataset on publicdata.au
    Reporting unit mappings to health networks and states in MyHospitals, Australia
    Publisher
    Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    Version
    27 October 2026
    Data released
    The publisher gives no release date for this dataset.
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    How to cite this data
    Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australian Government, MyHospitals Data API, reporting units, sourced 26 October 2026, https://myhospitalsapi.aihw.gov.au/, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/au-myhospitals-reporting-unit-mappings/v/2026-10-27/
  • Dataset on publicdata.au
    Reporting unit codes and alternative names in MyHospitals, Australia
    Publisher
    Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    Version
    27 October 2026
    Data released
    The publisher gives no release date for this dataset.
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    How to cite this data
    Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australian Government, MyHospitals Data API, reporting units, sourced 26 October 2026, https://myhospitalsapi.aihw.gov.au/, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/au-myhospitals-reporting-units/v/2026-10-27/