Grommets waiting time at Gawler 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 Gawler area of South Australia, 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: 44 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 13 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 10 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 152 days in 2023–24 to 44 days in 2024–25 — down 71% — while the national median fell from 94 days to 90 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, about 38 km away, at 32 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
Gawler Health Service	44 days	not published	13 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.

Lyell McEwin HospitalSA · about 19 km away113 days
Modbury HospitalSA · about 27 km away66 days
Women's and Children's HospitalSA · about 38 km away85 days
The Queen Elizabeth HospitalSA · about 38 km away32 days
Royal Adelaide HospitalSA · about 39 km away63 days
Flinders Medical CentreSA · about 51 km away72 days
Renmark Paringa District HospitalSA · about 189 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	Gawler Health Service (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not reported for this period	46	58
2017–18	not reported for this period	67	70
2018–19	not reported for this period	54	68
2019–20	not reported for this period	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	152	85	94
2024–25	44	78	90

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

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