Pressure equalising tubes (grommets) - insertion of waiting time at Coffs Harbour 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: 182 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 62 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 12.9%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 51 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
Coffs Harbour Hospital	182 days	12.9%	62 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.

Lismore Base HospitalNSW · about 169 km away156 days
Tamworth HospitalNSW · about 224 km away321 days
Tweed Valley HospitalNSW · about 242 km away85 days
Maitland HospitalNSW · about 305 km away263 days
John Hunter HospitalNSW · about 319 km away190 days
Belmont HospitalNSW · about 331 km away305 days
Gosford HospitalNSW · about 383 km away101 days
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai HospitalNSW · about 420 km away65 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

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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	Coffs Harbour Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	80	74	58
2017–18	83	71	70
2018–19	90	84	68
2019–20	90	86	73
2020–21	172	98	93
2021–22	194	80	79
2022–23	165	90	84
2023–24	216	107	94
2024–25	182	128	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 Coffs Harbour Hospital · Pressure equalising tubes (grommets) - insertion of across Australia · Pressure equalising tubes (grommets) - insertion of in New South Wales