Grommets waiting time at Northern Beaches 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 Frenchs Forest 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: 281 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 47 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 58 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 41 days in 2019–20 to 281 days in 2024–25 — up 585% — while the national median rose from 73 days to 90 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Royal North Shore Hospital, about 9 km away, at 144 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
Northern Beaches Hospital	281 days	not published	47 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.

Royal North Shore HospitalNSW · about 9 km away144 days
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai HospitalNSW · about 12 km away65 days
Royal Prince Alfred HospitalNSW · about 16 km away63 days
Sydney Children's HospitalNSW · about 19 km away137 days
Prince of Wales HospitalNSW · about 19 km away196 days
Auburn HospitalNSW · about 22 km away86 days
Canterbury HospitalNSW · about 23 km away265 days
The Children's Hospital at WestmeadNSW · about 23 km away95 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	Northern Beaches Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not reported for this period	74	58
2017–18	not reported for this period	71	70
2018–19	not published	84	68
2019–20	41	86	73
2020–21	68	98	93
2021–22	57	80	79
2022–23	89	90	84
2023–24	145	107	94
2024–25	281	128	90

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

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