Pressure equalising tubes (grommets) - insertion of waiting time at Lismore Base Hospital

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: 156 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 12 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 48 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
Lismore Base Hospital	156 days	not published	12 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.

Tweed Valley HospitalNSW · about 75 km away85 days
Coffs Harbour HospitalNSW · about 169 km away182 days
Tamworth HospitalNSW · about 340 km away321 days
Maitland HospitalNSW · about 466 km away263 days
John Hunter HospitalNSW · about 482 km away190 days
Belmont HospitalNSW · about 494 km away305 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

Lismore Base 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	Lismore Base Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not published	74	58
2017–18	70	71	70
2018–19	57	84	68
2019–20	not published	86	73
2020–21	97	98	93
2021–22	not published	80	79
2022–23	181	90	84
2023–24	59	107	94
2024–25	156	128	90

What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

All surgery at Lismore Base Hospital · Pressure equalising tubes (grommets) - insertion of across Australia · Pressure equalising tubes (grommets) - insertion of in New South Wales