Grommets waiting time at Cowra Health Service

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 Cowra 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: 19 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 17 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 2 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 47 days in 2016–17 to 19 days in 2024–25 — down 60% — while the national median rose from 58 days to 90 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.

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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
Cowra Health Service	19 days	not published	17 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.

Orange Health ServiceNSW · about 68 km away74 days
Dubbo HospitalNSW · about 177 km away70 days
Nepean HospitalNSW · about 187 km away66 days
Wagga Wagga HospitalNSW · about 188 km away357 days
Campbelltown HospitalNSW · about 197 km away273 days
Liverpool HospitalNSW · about 207 km away83 days
Wollongong HospitalNSW · about 212 km away93 days
The Children's Hospital at WestmeadNSW · about 212 km away95 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	Cowra Health Service (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	47	74	58
2017–18	55	71	70
2018–19	29	84	68
2019–20	30	86	73
2020–21	23	98	93
2021–22	49	80	79
2022–23	21	90	84
2023–24	27	107	94
2024–25	19	128	90

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

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