Grommets waiting time at Albany Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for grommets — published by the source as “Pressure equalising tubes (grommets) - insertion of” — at this public hospital in the Spencer Park area of Western Australia, 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: 91 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 11 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 64 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 33 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 80 days in 2017–18 to 91 days in 2024–25 — up 14% — while the national median rose from 70 days to 90 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Rockingham General Hospital, about 360 km away, at 88 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Pressure equalising tubes (grommets) - insertion of, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Albany Hospital	91 days	not published	11 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)	91 days	5.4%	608 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	90 days	6.5%	3835 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 90 days marks the national median.

Rockingham General HospitalWA · about 360 km away88 days
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial HospitalWA · about 364 km away291 days
Fiona Stanley HospitalWA · about 378 km away108 days
Perth Children's HospitalWA · about 389 km away95 days
Sir Charles Gairdner HospitalWA · about 389 km away21 days
Joondalup Health Campus (Public)WA · about 413 km away39 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 500 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Albany Hospital
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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Pressure equalising tubes (grommets) - insertion of, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Albany Hospital (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not published	60	58
2017–18	80	87	70
2018–19	58	87	68
2019–20	73	85	73
2020–21	not published	98	93
2021–22	65	86	79
2022–23	101	83	84
2023–24	89	91	94
2024–25	91	91	90

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

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