Grommets waiting time at Geraldton Hospital

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 Beachlands area of Western 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: 56 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 19 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 11 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 25 days in 2016–17 to 56 days in 2024–25 — up 124% — while the national median rose from 58 days to 90 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Joondalup Health Campus (Public), about 347 km away, at 39 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
Geraldton Hospital	56 days	not published	19 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)	91 days	5.4%	608 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.

Joondalup Health Campus (Public)WA · about 347 km away39 days
Sir Charles Gairdner HospitalWA · about 373 km away21 days
Perth Children's HospitalWA · about 373 km away95 days
Fiona Stanley HospitalWA · about 384 km away108 days
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial HospitalWA · about 396 km away291 days
Rockingham General HospitalWA · about 406 km away88 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

Geraldton Hospital
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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	Geraldton Hospital (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	25	60	58
2017–18	49	87	70
2018–19	60	87	68
2019–20	59	85	73
2020–21	180	98	93
2021–22	167	86	79
2022–23	166	83	84
2023–24	not published	91	94
2024–25	56	91	90

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

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