Grommets waiting time at Monash Medical Centre [Clayton]

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 Springvale area of Victoria, 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: 220 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 0.5%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 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 43 days in 2016–17 to 56 days in 2024–25 — up 30% — while the national median rose from 58 days to 90 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Casey Hospital, about 21 km away, at 42 days. Here, 0.5% 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
Monash Medical Centre [Clayton]	56 days	0.5%	220 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.

Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin]VIC · about 8 km away63 days
Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 13 km away91 days
Angliss HospitalVIC · about 14 km away99 days
Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]VIC · about 21 km away310 days
Casey HospitalVIC · about 21 km away42 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 21 km away329 days
Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville]VIC · about 23 km away136 days
Frankston HospitalVIC · about 25 km away113 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	Monash Medical Centre [Clayton] (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	43	68	58
2017–18	69	82	70
2018–19	65	50	68
2019–20	47	46	73
2020–21	60	69	93
2021–22	93	58	79
2022–23	76	80	84
2023–24	92	94	94
2024–25	56	78	90

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

All surgery at Monash Medical Centre [Clayton] · Grommets across Australia · Grommets in Victoria