Grommets waiting time at Belmont 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 Valentine area of New South Wales, 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: 305 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 10 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 60 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 45 days in 2017–18 to 305 days in 2024–25 — up 578% — while the national median rose from 70 days to 90 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is John Hunter Hospital, about 12 km away, at 190 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
Belmont Hospital	305 days	not published	10 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	128 days	10.5%	1428 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.

John Hunter HospitalNSW · about 12 km away190 days
Maitland HospitalNSW · about 34 km away263 days
Gosford HospitalNSW · about 52 km away101 days
Northern Beaches HospitalNSW · about 89 km away281 days
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai HospitalNSW · about 90 km away65 days
Royal North Shore HospitalNSW · about 98 km away144 days
Royal Prince Alfred HospitalNSW · about 105 km away63 days
The Children's Hospital at WestmeadNSW · about 106 km away95 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Belmont 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	Belmont Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not published	74	58
2017–18	45	71	70
2018–19	not published	84	68
2019–20	84	86	73
2020–21	76	98	93
2021–22	not published	80	79
2022–23	not published	90	84
2023–24	not published	107	94
2024–25	305	128	90

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

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