Pressure equalising tubes (grommets) - insertion of waiting time at Perth Children's 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: 95 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 327 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 6.7%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 37 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
Perth Children's Hospital	95 days	6.7%	327 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)	91 days	5.4%	608 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.

Sir Charles Gairdner HospitalWA · about 0 km away21 days
Fiona Stanley HospitalWA · about 12 km away108 days
Joondalup Health Campus (Public)WA · about 26 km away39 days
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial HospitalWA · about 26 km away291 days
Rockingham General HospitalWA · about 36 km away88 days

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

How the wait has changed

Perth Children's 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	Perth Children's Hospital (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not reported for this period	60	58
2017–18	not published	87	70
2018–19	91	87	68
2019–20	84	85	73
2020–21	116	98	93
2021–22	90	86	79
2022–23	83	83	84
2023–24	92	91	94
2024–25	95	91	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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