Grommets waiting time at Gosford 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 Gosford 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: 101 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 117 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 6.0%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 40 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 140 days in 2016–17 to 101 days in 2024–25 — down 28% — while the national median rose from 58 days to 90 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital, about 38 km away, at 65 days. Here, 6.0% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 6.5%.

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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
Gosford Hospital	101 days	6.0%	117 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.

Hornsby Ku-ring-gai HospitalNSW · about 38 km away65 days
Northern Beaches HospitalNSW · about 38 km away281 days
Royal North Shore HospitalNSW · about 47 km away144 days
Belmont HospitalNSW · about 52 km away305 days
The Children's Hospital at WestmeadNSW · about 53 km away95 days
Royal Prince Alfred HospitalNSW · about 54 km away63 days
Sydney Children's HospitalNSW · about 56 km away137 days
Prince of Wales HospitalNSW · about 56 km away196 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	Gosford Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	140	74	58
2017–18	78	71	70
2018–19	77	84	68
2019–20	85	86	73
2020–21	188	98	93
2021–22	82	80	79
2022–23	91	90	84
2023–24	71	107	94
2024–25	101	128	90

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

All surgery at Gosford Hospital · Grommets across Australia · Grommets in New South Wales