Pressure equalising tubes (grommets) - insertion of waiting time at Casey Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Pressure equalising tubes (grommets) - insertion of at this public hospital, 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: 42 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 135 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 0.7%2024–25 · released 28 May 2026

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 9 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

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
Casey Hospital	42 days	0.7%	135 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	78 days	4.4%	1054 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.

Angliss HospitalVIC · about 17 km away99 days
Monash Medical Centre [Clayton]VIC · about 21 km away56 days
Frankston Public Surgical CentreVIC · about 22 km away90 days
Frankston HospitalVIC · about 22 km away113 days
Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin]VIC · about 28 km away63 days
Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 33 km away91 days
Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]VIC · about 41 km away310 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 42 km away329 days

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

How the wait has changed

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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	Casey Hospital (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	84	68	58
2017–18	95	82	70
2018–19	57	50	68
2019–20	37	46	73
2020–21	158	69	93
2021–22	55	58	79
2022–23	84	80	84
2023–24	78	94	94
2024–25	42	78	90

What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

All surgery at Casey Hospital · Pressure equalising tubes (grommets) - insertion of across Australia · Pressure equalising tubes (grommets) - insertion of in Victoria