Grommets waiting time at John Hunter 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 Rankin Park 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: 190 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 48 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 52 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 61 days in 2016–17 to 190 days in 2024–25 — up 211% — while the national median rose from 58 days to 90 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Gosford Hospital, about 64 km away, at 101 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
John Hunter Hospital	190 days	not published	48 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.

Belmont HospitalNSW · about 12 km away305 days
Maitland HospitalNSW · about 26 km away263 days
Gosford HospitalNSW · about 64 km away101 days
Northern Beaches HospitalNSW · about 101 km away281 days
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai HospitalNSW · about 102 km away65 days
Royal North Shore HospitalNSW · about 110 km away144 days
The Children's Hospital at WestmeadNSW · about 117 km away95 days
Royal Prince Alfred HospitalNSW · about 117 km away63 days

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

How the wait has changed

John Hunter 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	John Hunter Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	61	74	58
2017–18	72	71	70
2018–19	136	84	68
2019–20	112	86	73
2020–21	128	98	93
2021–22	70	80	79
2022–23	101	90	84
2023–24	128	107	94
2024–25	190	128	90

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

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