Pressure equalising tubes (grommets) - insertion of waiting time at Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]

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: 329 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 42 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 63 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
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]	329 days	not published	42 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	78 days	4.4%	1054 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.

Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]VIC · about 1 km away310 days
Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 9 km away91 days
Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville]VIC · about 10 km away136 days
The Northern Hospital [Epping]VIC · about 12 km away76 days
Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin]VIC · about 18 km away63 days
Sunshine HospitalVIC · about 20 km away244 days
Monash Medical Centre [Clayton]VIC · about 21 km away56 days
Angliss HospitalVIC · about 28 km away99 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]
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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	Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West] (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not reported for this period	68	58
2017–18	not reported for this period	82	70
2018–19	not reported for this period	50	68
2019–20	not reported for this period	46	73
2020–21	not reported for this period	69	93
2021–22	not reported for this period	58	79
2022–23	not reported for this period	80	84
2023–24	248	94	94
2024–25	329	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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