Pressure equalising tubes (grommets) - insertion of waiting time at Flinders Medical Centre

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: 72 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 153 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 2.6%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 21 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
Flinders Medical Centre	72 days	2.6%	153 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)	78 days	2.2%	580 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.

Royal Adelaide HospitalSA · about 11 km away63 days
Women's and Children's HospitalSA · about 13 km away85 days
The Queen Elizabeth HospitalSA · about 16 km away32 days
Modbury HospitalSA · about 24 km away66 days
Lyell McEwin HospitalSA · about 32 km away113 days
Gawler Health ServiceSA · about 51 km away44 days
Renmark Paringa District HospitalSA · about 221 km away30 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	Flinders Medical Centre (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	99	46	58
2017–18	100	67	70
2018–19	123	54	68
2019–20	61	56	73
2020–21	not reported for this period	not reported for this period	93
2021–22	not reported for this period	not reported for this period	79
2022–23	not reported for this period	not reported for this period	84
2023–24	88	85	94
2024–25	72	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.

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